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Contents A message from the Vice-Chancellor Review of the year

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Yearbook team Managing editor: Michael Derringer News editor: Louis Ashworth Advertising: Mark Curtis Front cover: Eloise Hayes Back cover images: Sir Cam This page: Ángel Gúrria-Quintana Page 7 & 33: Louis Ashworth This publication has been printed using paper which is elemental chlorine free and sourced from sustainable resources.

Christ’s College Churchill College Clare College Clare Hall Corpus Christi College Darwin College Downing College Emmanuel College Fitzwilliam College Girton College Gonville & Caius College Homerton College Hughes Hall Jesus College King’s College Lucy Cavendish College Magdalene College Murray Edwards College Newnham College Pembroke College Peterhouse Queens’ College Robinson College St Catharine’s College St Edmund’s College St John’s College Selwyn College Sidney Sussex College Trinity College Trinity Hall Wolfson College Honorary Graduates Keep in touch

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Whether you are looking for a memento to mark your graduation or a present for a recent graduate, we have the perfect range of handcrafted and exclusive gifts for Cambridge alumni of any age.

From stylish rings and cufflinks to classic alumni ties and scarves, there’s something for everyone. Many products, including the University range from The Cambridge Satchel Company, can be personalised with College and matriculation details or graduation years.

For further information visit alumni.cam.ac.uk/shop

A message from the Vice-Chancellor You have studied hard and made sacrifices. Along the way, you have met people who will be friends for life.

As you embark on a career outside of University, or perhaps a new phase of study, you carry with you skills, knowledge, and memories that can never be taken away.

Your membership of the University community, too, is enduring. You are a part of a network of 250,000 alumni.

It’s a group that embraces almost every nationality on the planet, and which is as much a part of the University as current students and staff.

We are incredibly proud of all our graduates. You now enter a world where much is uncertain, but by remaining principled and speaking your mind with confidence you can make a genuine and positive difference.

On behalf of the University, I wish you all the very best.

Professor Stephen J. Toope June 2018

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by Sidney Sussex in September ● Group has also been hosted by Clare, Magdalene and St John’s ● CUSU accuses group of “promoting homophobia” Nick Chevis and Lucia Keijer-Palau Investigations Editors

the idea that homosexuality is a ‘disease’ that can be cured”.

Between 2010 and 2013 the Wilberforce Academy took place at Oxford University colleges. Since 2014 the Wilberforce Academy has been consistently hosted at Cambridge colleges.

A spokesperson for Magdalene College said: “The college did host this organisation in 2014.” Magdalene College is shown in a highlights video of the 2014 Wilberforce Academy on the Christian Concern YouTube channel. UKIP member and 2017 candidate for Witney Alan Craig tweeted in 2014: “Back from @CConcern’s visionary Wilberforce Academy

@ Magdalene College Cambridge http:// bit.ly/1m67pMh Bright young Christians #TheFuture”. In a post on his personal blog, Alan Craig has referred to a “Gaystapo” of “gay-rights stormtroopers” with “Nazi expansionist ambitions”.

The spokesperson for Magdalene College also said: “This was, as you will appreciate, a private booking and as with all bookings it doesn’t translate that the views and opinions of the organisations reflect those of our College or indeed the wide variety of views held by its staff and students. The College maintains a positive and proactive approach to equality by supporting and encouraging all un-

der-represented groups, and promoting an inclusive culture that values diversity across the College.”

In 2015, Clare College hosted the Wilberforce Academy. A spokesperson at Clare College said: “We appreciate the concerns this private event booking has created. Clare is a diverse and inclusive community and we greatly value the LGBT+ initiatives taken in the College.” A delegate posted on Instagram on the 31st August 2015 that “the #WilberforceAcademy begins tomorrow Continued on page 10 ▶

Toope takes the reins Todd Gillespie and Caitlin Smith Senior News Correspondent and Senior News Editor On Sunday, Professor Stephen Toope will officially begin his tenure as the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He takes over from Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who has been in the role since 2010.

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in history and literature in 1979, he completed a PhD at Trinity College Cambridge. He has previously served as president and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.

Over the course of his tenure, Borysiewicz has made moves to strengthen the university’s established research reputation: the Office for Post-Doctoral Affairs, established in 2013, now supports the 4,000 university post-doctoral researchers who comprise 35% of staff.

As Vice-Chancellor, he has championed international initiatives. However, the outcome of the EU referendum in 2016 has proven to be something of a stumbling block for the Vice-Chancellor.

A long-standing and outspoken opponent of Brexit, Borysiewicz has called the Leave vision “a fantasy” and has criticised the government’s restrictive approach to migration, emphasising Cambridge’s need to remain attractive to EU applicants and for it to champion the rights of its current staff and students from overseas.

Perhaps inevitably, the new Vice-Chancellor has inherited his predecessor’s globalist outlook. In an interview with CBC News earlier this year, he stressed the need for the University to continue acting as a “beacon of inclusion and openness” in the wake of the “Brexit phenomenon”.

In the interview, Toope, who holds several law degrees, discussed the difficulties of leading an institution with such an established reputation as the University: “It’s always a balance between retaining tradition, retaining our fundamental commitments to teaching, learning and ground-breaking research, and understanding that we have to rethink the way the delivery mechanisms operate.”

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Cambridge University Labour Club (CULC) have issued a statement condemning the conduct of a former executive committee member, who was expelled from the club in June, at the CUSU Freshers’ Fair earlier this week.

Josh Jackson, who was on the stand for the newly-formed ‘Cambridge Momentum Society’ (MomSoc), “repeatedly made derogatory remarks about current members of CULC to students in attendance,” the comment to Varsity says.

Eyewitnesses told Varsity on Tuesday that Jackson advised fairgoers to avoid the CULC stand and that he referred to CULC stallholders as “deviants”.

The MomSoc stand at the Freshers’ Fair used the branding of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn political group Momentum. A Momentum spokesperson told Varsity that the Cambridge Momentum Society was not affiliated to the national organisation, nor had they made contact with them.

Jackson was removed from CULC and banned from its events in Easter term, a�ter claims that he had made fake Facebook accounts to impersonate executive committee members and broken other elements of club policy.

CULC co-chairs Edward Parker-Humphreys and Becca Martin said: “We have been made aware that an individual working on the Cambridge Momentum Society stand at the CUSU Freshers’ Fair repeatedly made derogatory remarks about current members of CULC to students in attendance.” The co-chairs confirmed to Varsity that the individual in question was Jackson.

CULC added that “the individual concerned had previously been expelled from CULC, following a vote at a gen-

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This vote was taken a�ter the individual concerned acted in a way which directly conflicted with our beliefs and was in violation of our constitution. We reject any suggestion that current members of CULC have acted in a manner that is contrary to our values of tolerance, diversity and respect.”

Jackson’s removal took place at CULC’s Easter termly general meeting (TGM), in June, following events that occurred a�ter the previous TGM, in March.

A written statement to expel him, put forward by former co-chairs Rea Duxbury and Siyang Wei, said that Jackson had shown “completely unacceptable” behaviour, and was “likely to bring the Club into disrepute”.

CULC alleged that Jackson used “fake Facebook accounts of four executive committee members to fabricate messages” and that he “gained unauthorised access to the CULC email”.

It followed an incident in Lent term when a student, who was not a CULC member, claimed to Varsity that Jackson had told them to attend a TGM to stack the room so he could be elected to the position of chair. CULC members can vote at the TGM, which are open to all, to elect their committee for the coming term. At the time, CULC did not have a formal membership list, and could not easily verify who was allowed to vote.

Jackson, who was speakers’ officer at the time, lost the vote for chair, lost a second vote to maintain his role as speakers’ officer, and then won election to the position of membership officer.

Asked to comment at the time, Jackson sent Varsity screenshots from Facebook, which he claimed showed CULC executive members conspiring to rig the elections at Lent’s TGM. In the screenshots, accounts with names and photos matching those of four (Contd. p2)

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A royal visit: the Earl of Wessex opens a new development at Jesus College

Aoife Hogan and Caitlin Smith Senior News Editors Transgender and transitioning students looking to apply to Cambridge may find their admissions process eased as Cambridge’s three remaining all-women colleges are all set to re-examine, or have already changed, their admissions policies regarding transgender students.

On Tuesday, Varsity reported that Murray Edwards College will no longer require transgender women to have their gender legally recognised to apply to the college. The policy change was presented in a formal statement, approved by the University Council, and emphasised: “At the admissions level, we will consider any student who, at the point of application, identifies as female and, where they have been identified as male at birth, has taken steps to live in the female

gender (or has been legally recognised as female via the Gender Recognition Act (2004)).”

The new policy will also immediately apply to current transgender students who wish to transfer from another college during their time at the University.

It has since been revealed that the other two all-women colleges in Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish and Newnham, have also been involved in discussions regarding a change in their respective admissions policies.

Currently, both Lucy Cavendish and Newnham only allow students who are legally certified as female to apply, excluding prospective students who identify as women, but are not legally recognised as so. However, The Telegraph reported that the council of Lucy Cavendish discussed a review of their admissions policy on Wednesday evening.

Speaking to Varsity, Murray Edwards College Student Union’s Women’s Affairs Officer Kate Litman emphasised that the requirement of legal proof of gender under the Gender Recognition Act excludes a large number of potential applicants from pursuing an application to study at the college.

“The Gender Recognition Act requires individuals to be 18 before their gender is legally recognised. This requirement cuts out a huge portion of applicants who are 17 at the time they apply to university.

“The stipulation that individuals must have ‘lived in the acquired gender for two years’ further excludes younger transgender women who are unlikely to be judged in the eyes of the Gender Recognition Panel to have met these requirements.”

Newnham’s ‘Transgender Policy Statement’, released in 2015, states that the college accept “any (Contd. p.2)

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Men’s sports club set to open its doors to women Louis Ashworth Editor-at-Large Patrick Wernham Editor Cambridge’s two elite sports clubs, the Hawks and the Ospreys, are currently consulting on a proposal which would allow them to share usage of the Hawks’ expansive clubhouse.

Student members of the Hawks – an all-male society comprised primarily of Blues sportsmen – showed overwhelming support in an advisory vote for a series of reforms which would allow members of the Ospreys to have equal rights to use Calder House for events and socials.

The Hawks’ termly alumni magazine said the changes would “cement the relationship between the two clubs and send an unequivocal message that they were presenting a united leadership on elite sport within the University”.

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Portugal Place near the Maypole pub, is a four-floor building containing a members’ room, bar, dining room and committee room. Opened in 1993, access is limited normally to Hawks members – usually students who have received a Blue, half-Blue or colours by playing sport at a University level – and members of the Dining Rights Club, which is open to local professional or business people of any gender. Both groups can bring guests into the clubhouse.

The proposal is currently undergoing a process of internal review, with Hawks alumni being consulted on the changes outlined. If passed, the changes could provide a permanent home for the Ospreys, a society which is open to all sportswomen who are judged to have competed at a sufficient level.

In a joint statement, the current presidents of the Hawks and Ospreys told Varsity: “The Hawks’ and Ospreys’ Clubs have worked in close partnership from

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the beginning on the clubhouse sharing proposal. There have been resident member votes from both clubs supporting this proposed arrangement. We are currently reviewing the consultation process with non-resident members and will publicise its findings alongside documents that we have already placed in the public domain so as to maximise transparency.

Whatever the final decision, both clubs are committed to continuing to work closely to ensure the outcome is both sustainable and positive for Cambridge sport.”

The Hawks’ Club was founded in 1872 as a society for the University’s elite athletes. Its members have included actor Hugh Laurie, former England cricket captain Mike Atherton, and King George VI. The Ospreys were founded in 1985 as a social club for sportswomen. Both societies have their own admissions processes, and Blues athletes do not automatically become members.

The Ospreys have lead a nomadic existence since their foundation in 1985: though they have had their own clubhouses at points, they have been unable to sustain residence in any location. Despite the access restrictions, it is already common for The Ospreys to use Calder House’s facilities for social occasions.

The proposed change was first announced in the Hawks’ own publication, The Hawk, in Easter 2017. The article concerning the plans begins by saying that resident members of the Hawks and Ospreys had voted overwhelmingly “to give the Ospreys occupation in the Clubhouse”, and that the views of alumni were now being sought out.

The piece argues that sponsors are increasingly unwilling to be associated with a single-sex members’ club, and that there is an increasing will from both parties to present a united front to the university. It also notes that the Ospreys have been “severely (Cont. p. 2)

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and son of Queen Elizabeth II, visited Cambridge on Tuesday to open the new West Court development at his alma mater, Jesus College.

The £13m project started in 2014, when Jesus College bought Grade II listed buildings from a neighbouring theological college, Wesley House.

Professor Stephen Toope was also in attendance, in his first formal college engagement as vice-chancellor of the University.

The West Court development includes a new bar, brewery room, Junior Common Room (JCR), Middle Common Room (MCR), 180-seat lecture theatre, dedicated medical teaching teaching facility, and accommodation.

West Court also houses the Cambridge Peking University China Centre and the Intellectual Forum, an interdisciplinary research centre directed by Clare College fellow and former Cambridge MP Dr Julian Huppert.

A�ter his arrival by helicopter, the Earl was taken on a tour of the development by the master, Professor Ian White, before unveiling a commemorative plaque.

While touring the new developement, Prince Edward met College students, academics and staff members, as well as fellow alumni and invited guests.

In a new exhibition gallery, the Earl was shown memorabilia from his university days, including a Jesus May Ball programme from 1985, when he was part of the organising committee.

Prince Edward and Vice-Chancellor Toope were contemporaries at Cambridge, while Toope was studying for his PhD at Trinity College. The two acted alongside each other in a student production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in Jesus College Chapel.

The Earl was admitted to read History in 1983, which attracted controversy at the time given his A-Level results of only a C and two D grades. At the time, his father, Prince Philip, remarked, “What a friend we have in Jesus!”

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Josh Kimblin News Correspondent Members of the University have spoken out against Cambridge’s implementation of the government’s Prevent legislation, questioning the University’s commitment to “light touch” compliance.

The comments follow an intervention made by the University administration in a panel discussion organised by the Palestine Society (PalSoc). The University replaced a planned chairperson with a

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“neutral” alternative at the discussion, held in November, about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to pressure Israel into ending the occupation of lands claimed by Palestine.

In response to the replacement, PalSoc published an open letter which condemned the intervention as “an intolerable violation of academic freedom”. The letter was signed by over 500 people, including notable American academic, Professor Noam Chomsky.

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Aoife Hogan Senior News Editor The University of Cambridge has established a policy on staff-student relationships, marking the university’s first formal approach to relations between students and employed figures of responsibility, along with a number of other initiatives intended to convey the University’s ‘zero tolerance’ stance on harassment and sexual assault.

The new campaign, titled ‘Breaking the Silence’, will be formally launched on 24th October, and primarily takes the form of a website, www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk, which will collate existing policies and channels for help with new initiatives to be rolled out later this term. It is hoped that the website will serve as a memorable, assertive symbol for all students and staff – a single portal for policy information, incident reporting, preventive training, and direct links to routes of support for victims.

The widely-publicised campaign comes at a time when the ‘#metoo’ campaign is dominating social media, and American film producer Harvey Weinstein faces serious allegations of

multiple incidents of sexual harassment over almost three decades.

Earlier this year, Varsity reported on a University survey which revealed that 3% of the 6,000 participant Cambridge students had reported sexual assault, with female students seven times more likely to have been the victims of sexual harassment, and nearly six times more likely to have been the victims of sexual assault, than male students.

‘Breaking the Silence’ marks the first decisive action by the University to instill its stance on harassment and sexual assault in the minds of the University community, and to simplify the routes for seeking help and information. It is also the first major campaign under the tenure of new University Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope, who told Varsity: “Cambridge prides itself on being a leader, academically, in terms of research, educationally. It has to be a social leader as well, tackling tough problems such as sexual harassment. And I think that the leadership of the University has to send the right signals and has to be committed to directly addressing these challenges.

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The government has announced new measures to protect ‘free speech’ at universities, amid concerns that students are working to exclude ideas they might find offensive.

Jo Johnson, the universities minister, announced on Thursday that new higher education body the Office for Students (OFS) would be conducting a consultation aiming to “ensure students are exposed to a wide range of issues and ideas in a safe environment without fear of censorship, rebuke or reprisal”.

Johnson said he wanted universities “to encourage a culture of openness and debate and ensure that those with different backgrounds or perspectives can flourish in a higher education environment”.

Cambridge has been at the centre of several debates on freedom of speech and student censorship. Recently, the University drew national attention following a decision by the Beard Society, a student group at Peterhouse, to disinvite the activist Linda Bellos a�ter she said she would question transgender politics.

Critics have claimed that concepts like preferred pronouns, microaggressions, safe spaces, no-platforming and trigger warnings are producing a generation of

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Bonfire of the old white men as decolonisation picks up steam Louis Ashworth Editor-at-Large Efforts to ‘decolonise’ the Cambridge English Tripos have taken a step forward, with the Faculty beginning discussions a�ter an open letter calling for an end to teaching which “elevates white male authors at the expense of all others”.

The letter, which has received around

150 student signatures, said that a focus on white authors in the undergraduate course “implicitly reminded [BME students] that their stories, indeed the stories of anyone who is not a white man, are not valued”. The letter suggested a number of changes, such as ensuring that all exam papers included “two or more postcolonial and BME authors”.

English undergraduates typically study a range of ‘period papers’ in their

first two years, focusing on four roughly two hundred-year long blocks from 1350 to the present day. There is also a separate paper on Shakespeare. Campaigners have claimed that the current course focuses too much on ‘canonical’ authors – typically white men – to the exclusion of female authors and those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, and that it offers a perspective too shaped by colonial ideas.

Minutes of the Teaching Forum, circulated to students earlier this week, noted a discussion on 5th October about the letter. The group, which is headed by faculty chairman Professor Peter De Bolla, noted: “We should be mindful of the ‘a�terlife’ of exam papers in influencing future teaching practice, and in sending a signal to students about what they are invited to write.”

It added: “Nonetheless, we should be

wary of assuming that the job of promoting equality and diversity would be done simply by including authors on exam papers; rather, the process should be a matter of opening all of what we define as ‘English’ literature out to critical thinking that recognises the global and interconnected nature of literary study.”

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Three student societies, led by the Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, have joined forces to publish a report detailing how the University can achieve full divestment and positive reinvestment, drawing on examples of institutions that have divested from fossil fuels.

The report, titled Decarbonising Cambridge: A Pathway to Divestment and Positive Reinvestment, was written by a group of 20 students from the Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, Positive Investment Cambridge and Just Love Cambridge, a Christian student community.

The report has been submitted to the University’s Divestment Working Group, set to publish its report on the “pros and cons of divestment” in Lent.

The report, led by Zero Carbon, centres on three key findings, firstly identifying three options for both partial and full divestment from fossil fuels, drawing on successful divestment of other institutions, specifically the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Investment and the universities of California and Bristol. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Investment reduced the total percentage of financial investments in fossil fuels from 6.6% in 2014 to 1.7% in 2017. The UC system divested $200 million in coal and tar sands investments in 2015, then a further $150 million in response to student protests and sit-ins. It now has approximately 3% of its public equity holdings invested in oil and gas drilling.

In comparison, it was estimated that the University had £377,431,354 invested

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in fossil fuels in 2014 — 6.4% of its endowment at the time. The figure was disputed by Andrew Reid, Cambridge’s Director of Finance until January 2018, who claimed it was less than 3.5%. While the University publicly claimed in 2016 that it had no exposure to coal and tar sands in its direct investments, negligible exposure in its indirect holdings and no expectation to invest in such fossil fuels in the future, the Paradise Papers revealed otherwise — Cambridge invested £1.3m in Coller International, a private equity firm based in Guernsey.

The three proposed pathways to divestment include transferring investments to an external fossil-free fund manager, moving global share investments to a low-carbon index, and encouraging fund managers to implement sustainable governance and present the option of a fully divested fund.

The report also highlights the University’s opportunity to be part of an energy revolution of investors using Green Revolving or Impact Investment Funds, both of which reportedly generate beneficial social and environmental impact alongside financial returns.

Lastly, it concludes that the University’s investment procedure is unnecessarily opaque, citing a previous University report into ethical investment which “[failed] to take any meaningful action on the issue.”

Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge, wrote its foreword. Zeichner told Varsity, “The Divestment campaign is an important part of the battle against climate change. As the impact of rising CO₂ emissions becomes too enormous

Richardson, expressing their disappointment that the universities “continue to draw the overwhelming majority of their students from a small minority both in terms of geography and socio-economic background.”

Toope responded to the criticism by saying that while he acknowledged more work needed to be done, “a great deal has already changed in our outreach work”.

He said that the University had made “real and sustained progress” in widening access, such as the £5 million it spent last year on access initiatives.

The criticisms come a�ter Lammy released data last week revealing large, and increasing, class and social disparities at Oxford and Cambridge. The findings revealed that between 2010 and 2015, the proportion of Cambridge offers to applicants from the top two social classes rose from 79% to 81%. In the same period, on average a quarter of Cambridge colleges made no offers to black British applicant.

The data also showed that throughout the five year period, Cambridge made more offers to applicants from four of the Home Counties than the whole of the North of England, leading Lammy to label Oxbridge “the last bastions of the old school tie”.

In the interview with Varsity, Lammy also responded to criticisms that similar inequalities existed across other British universities, saying that while there were problems at places like Exeter and Bristol, it was right that Oxbridge was the centre of attention as “the two educational institutions in this country that are largely considered to be across the globe second to none”.

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Cambridge has rallied round CUSU women’s officer Lola Olufemi a�ter The Daily Telegraph reported on an open letter to the English Faculty with a front-page photo of Olufemi and headline: “Student forces Cambridge to drop white authors”. The University, and numerous groups and individuals within it, have condemned the coverage and expressed support for Olufemi.

The article falsely claimed that “Cambridge University’s English literature professors will be forced to replace white authors with black writers”.

Speaking on Women’s Hour on Thursday, Olufemi described her “shock, and general dismay and disbelief ” at the media coverage and subsequent personal abuse she received. She discussed the Telegraph’s decision to use her photograph, “as if to incite hatred.”

The University condemned the “harassment directed towards our students on social media as a result of the recent coverage” and clarified: “Changes will not lead to any one author being dropped in favour of others – that is not the way the system at works Cambridge.”

Those tweeting in support of Olufemi include CUSU President Daisy Eyre, NUS Women’s Campaign, postcolonial supervisor Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Stephen Fry, and the master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey.

FLY issued a statement discussing the media targeting of Olufemi in light of the findings of the Lammy report: “Such media scrutiny will only serve to discourage black students and other students of colour from applying to Cambridge, a place where they already suffer the effects of intensive scrutiny and alienation.”

The Daily Telegraph have since issued a correction, saying: “The proposals were in fact recommendations. Neither they nor the open letter called for the University to replace white authors with black ones and there are no plans to do so.”

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Cambridge’s Cut The Rent campaigners are close to a breakthrough as campaign heads at Robinson and Magdalene are hoping to present their cases to their respective college authorities in the next two weeks.

The Cut The Rent campaigns, currently active at Murray Edwards College as well as Robinson and Magdalene, aim to urge colleges to reduce their room rent charges, citing high prices and unsatisfactory accommodation.

The Big Cambridge Survey 2016, which surveyed 3,427 students and was published by CUSU, found that 57% of Murray Edwards students and 60% of

Robinson students were not satisfied with the value of accommodation. At Magdalene, just 24% of students felt their views were represented on accommodation matters.

Accommodation at all three colleges has been criticised for being not only unaffordable, but also poor value for money. Undergraduate rooms in Murray Edwards are priced within categories, the highest band of single rooms costing £1,969 per term for a 39-week license, including overhead charges, network connection and medical taxi scheme charges. At Magdalene, prices are standardised for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The highest-priced single rooms cost £1,421 every term; the lowest are £1,016. For Robinson, the most expensive rooms are priced at £1,995, while its band

of ‘value’ rooms cost £1,330.

Graduate students at Murray Edwards can pay £2,183 for an ensuite room, or the lowest available price for a room with a shared bathroom, £1,635. At Robinson, graduates are charged for fi�ty weeks of rent at a minimum cost of £5,345, with the most expensive accommodation costing £8,055.

The Cut The Rent petition at Robinson, which has been endorsed by its JCR, was circulated to students earlier this week, with the hope that it will give as many people as possiblethe opportunity to read and sign the petition before it is submitted to the college.

Speaking to Varsity, Matt Kite, a thirdyear Philosophy student at Robinson Continued on page 4 ▶

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Marches and faculty meetings as Cantabs rally for decolonisation Elizabeth Shaw News Correspondent The movements towards the decolonisation of the Cambridge English Tripos continues to make progress, following a working group meeting on Wednesday 1st November.

The ‘Decolonising the Curriculum Faculty Research Initiative’, a group established with the intention of catalysing

the decolonisation of curricula across the University, met to discuss ideas to pitch to the English Faculty. The panel featured Lola Olufemi, CUSU women’s officer, Dr Chana Morgenstern and Dr Priyamvada Gopal as members of the Faculty responsible for the elective paper in postcolonial literature, and Dr Adam Branch from the Department of Politics and International Studies, who focused on how the initiative could affect other curricula.

The final paragraph of the open letter to the Faculty, which obtained over 100 signatories and was circulated earlier this year, was read to the group. While reactions to the letter have been largely positive, Dr Gopal expressed concern that the positive engagement may “stop at token inclusion”. There may become a point, she warned, at which the Faculty deem the changes to be “enough”.

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Statistics from last year’s examinations have revealed a wide attainment gap between ethnic groups, analysis by Varsity has revealed.

The percentage of black students who achieved a First in their Tripos exams fell this year, against the background of a slight uptick in Firsts across all students.

The figures, which take into account examination results achieved by undergraduates in all years, show that only 10.5% of students who identify as “Black or Black British – African” were awarded a First in 2017, less than half of the overall average of 24.4%, while no students who identity as “Black or Black British – Caribbean” or “Other Black background” received the top grade.

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Students who take time out from studying have found themselves unable to claim financial support, leaving some in serious hardship, a Varsity investigation has discovered.

Over 200 Cambridge students a year ‘intermit’, taking temporarily leave from the University to recover from an “illness or other grave cause”. Yet policy inconsistencies, unusually stringent tests for benefit eligibility, and limitations to available funds have le�t some intermitting students in dire financial straits – with many of them already struggling with serious health issues or a lack of financial support from family.

Intermitting students are classified as full-time students by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which o�ten precludes their eligibility for state support, including out-of-work and meanstested benefits.

Compounding this, the policy of Student Finance England (SFE), which provides tuition and maintenance loans, is inconsistent with the DWP. SFE does not consider intermitting students to be full-time, and so withdraws any student loans and maintenance payments.

Students have accused the government of neglect, and argued that Cambridge colleges should pool resources to support intermitting students.

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David Lammy: centralise your admissions David Lammy MP has argued in an interview with Varsity that there are a number of concrete reforms Oxbridge should make in order to diversify its student body.

The Labour MP for Tottenham suggested that one of the main problems with the Oxbridge admissions system was the two institutions’ collegiate structure, meaning that there could be significant disparities in how far different colleges are willing to go in order to widen access. The universities should look at moving towards a centralised admissions system to reduce the disparities, argued Lammy.

Lammy also came out in support of a foundational year for students from under-privileged backgrounds, a model that has proved successful at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University.

He also said that Oxbridge should follow the lead of Ivy League colleges in America, who take into account a student’s class and local authority rank when making offers.

Lammy finally argued that Oxbridge should be more proactive in approaching talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds, saying that the universities should “actively write to young people in Sunderland, in Rochdale, in Salford, in Tottenham who get straight As and say… we want you to apply.”

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Cambridge’s pro-vice-chancellor for education, Graham Virgo, has defended the merits of the National Student Survey (NSS), debating CUSU Education Officer, Martha Krish, and Matt Kite of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE).

The intervention by Virgo, in Varsity today, comes as the latest development in discussions – fraught with tension about the dangers, but also the potential importance, of students completing the survey – which have been ongoing since 2016.

CDE and CUSU have criticised the NSS, saying that participation in the survey will lead to higher tuition fees and the marketisation of higher education.

On the other hand, Virgo argues that the survey “provides students with a voice” which allows the university to “identify and remedy areas of concern”.

While Virgo believes fees to be “unfair and unjust”, he writes that the NSS no longer affects them as directly because of a change in the law last year – a point that CUSU contests. He argues further that the publication of the results “helps prospective students from all backgrounds to make informed decisions” about applying to university, and that they are “used extensively” in the preparation of well-known league tables.

Remarking on the extent of the survey’s benefits, Virgo adds that the NSS has been useful in the monitoring of the “adverse effect of a heavy workload on student mental health”, adding that students’ feedback has been “invaluable”.

Florence Oulds condemned the gaps in government support, saying they show a “lack of understanding of how intermission works, but also of disabled students”.

A spokesperson for the DWP did not respond directly to the findings of Varsity’s investigation, offering to send information about benefits eligibility that is available online. The University declined to comment on Varsity’s findings.

Except in exceptional circumstances, they are not eligible to claim income-related benefits unless they already claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a benefit for those with a serious longterm illness or disability.

The criteria for PIP eligibility are extremely stringent, with the need to prove inability to complete basic tasks like “reading or communicating” and “washing, bathing or going to the toilet”.

This is far beyond the threshold required for non-students to claim other out-ofwork benefits. The application process can also take several months, and only around half the claims are approved.

Students can only obtain most other benefits a�ter the resolution of their reason for intermission.

Consequently, students who have intermitted due to ill health and are too ill to work but not eligible for PIP can be le�t, as one student described her experience to Varsity, in “penury”.

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by a rule only to speak to the press through official channels, though this has not stopped some senior critics of Martin. Her allies among the senior elected officers, however, have abided by protocol and not responded to requests for comment.

In a statement to Varsity, one National Executive Council (NEC) member, Joe Cox, praised Martin as “a modernising president who has spent the last eight months working tirelessly to rebuild the link between NUS and [students’ unions].” He condemned Martin’s

Attempts to renegotiate gender recognition policy at Newnham and Lucy Cavendish are progressing slowly, following Murray Edwards’ revision of their admissions policy last October.

Murray Edwards was the first of Cambridge’s women’s colleges to remove the requirement for transgender women to have their genders legally recognised in order to qualify for application. Shortly a�ter, both Newnham and Lucy Cavendish announced a review of their policy.

A�ter entering negotiations with the JCR committee, Newnham’s governing body released an updated policy in November. This update brought the college more in line with Murray Edwards’ policy, revising the requirement for legal recognition through the Gender Recognition Act to “formal” recognition as female “on a current passport, driving license, birth certificate or gender recognition certificate. However, JCR President Jess Lock expressed dissatisfaction with this amendment, saying that the committee “would like prospective students to be allowed to self-identify, rather than be forced to possess the correct documentation to prove their gender identity”.

Lock said that the JCR intends to reactivate negotiations with college in the next few weeks. “The JCR committee remains hopeful that Newnham will change its policy in order to become a more welcoming, accessible and safe place for all women,” she added, “not just those who can emotionally and financially afford to go through the process of seeking the required documentation.”

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NUS leader pushes back against bullying claims Todd Gillespie Senior News Editor The president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Shakira Martin, has insisted she is a victim of racism, classism, and shameless electioneering a�ter she was accused of bullying and harassing colleagues.

This week, serious allegations have flown back and forth between senior members of opposing political factions in the run-up to the annual NUS elections in late March.

One NUS delegate told Varsity that

Martin’s allies were afraid to back her publicly, fearing the “mob mentality” of the le�t-wing factions would trigger a “pile-on” at anyone who supported her or proposed following proper complaints protocol.

Meanwhile, Martin, who is wellknown for her direct manner, said she felt the allegations were directed against her partly because she is “a black, working-class woman”.

In an interview with The Guardian on Wednesday, Martin said: “I don’t have a degree. I’m a single parent. I’m aware of how I sound. To people that know me – yeah, that’s Shakira. To people that

don’t know me, it’s creating that picture and it’s a false picture.

“I’m a strong, outspoken, articulate black woman that likes piercings and tattoos and I’ve got swagger. I’m not going to change myself. I’m not going to be anything but Shakira – rough around the edges, straight talking, authentic, real Shakira.”

Officers have been told to work from home this week as an investigation is launched into the comments made by several senior figures in the organisation, whose work environment has been described as “toxic”.

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Revealed: More colleges hosted controversial Christian group

A Varsity investigation has revealed that Magdalene College hosted the week-long Wilberforce Academy in 2014, followed

by Clare College in 2015. Varsity has also found that St John’s College hosted the Wilberforce Academy Dinner in 2015.

It was reported earlier this month that Sidney Sussex College hosted the Academy in 2016 and 2017. This news prompted much controversy, with a petition to “Deny Tacit Endorsement to ‘Christian Concern’ at Sidney Sussex College” launched by Sidney Sussex College Student Union (SSCSU) LGBTQ+, women’s, welfare and BME officers.

The Wilberforce Academy is an initiative of Christian Concern, a fundamentalist Christian group that have been criticised for the promotion of homophobic views. The Academy claim “delegates will be prepared for servant-hearted, Christ-centred leadership in public life, having been equipped with a robust biblical framework that guides their thinking, prayers and activity in addressing the issues facing our society.”

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Hundreds gather to remember Stephen Hawking as funeral is held March 31st 2018

Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Cambridge today to pay tribute to physicist Stephen Hawking, as around 500 guests – including family, friends and academic colleagues – attended a private funeral at Great St Mary’s Church.

Professor Hawking’s coffin, decorated with an arrangement of white “Universe” lilies and “Polar Star” roses, was carried into the church by six porters from Gonville & Caius College, where Hawking was a fellow for more than 50 years. As they approached the church, the spectators lining the streets broke into a round of applause.

When the funeral procession entered the church, the bell rang out 76 times, one for each year of Hawking’s life. His family, including his three children, followed the hearse which was carrying his coffin.

Stephen Hawking – a former Lucasian professor of mathematics, and one of the world’s most famous scientists – died in Cambridge on the 14th of March, having survived over 50 years since his initial diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease. His life and legacy have received praise from around the world, and thousands of people have signed a public condolence book at Caius.

Actor and Cambridge graduate Eddie Redmayne, who in 2015 won an Oscar for his portrayal of Hawking in the biopic film The Theory of Everything, addressed gathered mourners inside the church, reading a passage from Ecclesiastes: “For everything there is a season”.

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funeral, including Professor Fay Dowker, a former student of Hawking, who described the late physicist’s powerful impact on those around him, saying: “He inspired people with the excitement and importance of pure scientific enquiry and was admired and revered for his devotion, as a scholar, to the pursuit of knowledge.”

Hawking’s eldest son, Robert, gave a eulogy honouring his father both as a physicist and a man.

Music at the funeral included performances by Caius College Choir, and Beyond the Night Sky, a work specially written by Caian composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad to celebrate Hawking’s seventy-fifth birthday last year.

Despite Hawking’s atheism, the funeral was a Church of England service,

including hymns such as ’To be a pilgrim’ and ‘Jerusalem’. After the funeral, a private reception was held at Trinity College.

Hawking’s ashes will be interred at Westminster Abbey, next to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton, in June, following a service of thanksgiving.

One of those who attended the funeral said: “This was a very Cambridge sendoff for Professor Hawking – restrained but very moving. The balance was perfectly and delicately caught between the spiritual and the equally poetic metaphors of theoretical physics. The sense of the mystery of the universe was powerful, as was the feeling that this was also an event for family and colleagues from Cambridge and particularly from Caius.

Stephen would have enjoyed it.”

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Colleges reassess admissions rules for trans students Aoife Hogan and Caitlin Smith October 6th 2017 Transgender and transitioning students looking to apply to Cambridge may find their admissions process eased, as Cambridge’s three women-only colleges are all set to re-examine, or have already changed, their admissions policies regarding transgender students.

On Tuesday, Varsity reported that Murray Edwards College will no longer require transgender women to have their gender legally recognised to apply to the college.

The policy change was presented in a formal statement, approved by the University Council.

The statement said: “At the admissions level, we will consider any student who, at the point of application, identifies as female and, where they have been identified as male at birth, has taken steps to live in the female gender (or has been legally recognised as female via the Gender Recognition Act (2004).”

The new policy will also immediately apply to current transgender students who wish to transfer from another college during their time at the University.

It has since been revealed that the other two all-women colleges in Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish and Newnham, have also been involved in discussions regarding a change in their respective admissions policies.

Currently, both Lucy Cavendish and Newnham only allow students who are legally certified as female to apply, excluding prospective students who identify as women, but are not legally recognised as so.

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Strikes ended as staff accept proposals April 13th 2018

The University and College Union (UCU) has announced today that industrial action over the current pension dispute for university staff will cease immediately at higher education institutions across the country.

The union’s decision followed a ballot of UCU members, the results of which were announced today, which saw a majority of 64% of members accept proposals put forward by employer advocacy group Universities UK (UUK) last month.

The vote saw a record turnout of 63.5% of UCU members.

The UUK proposals included the introduction of an expert panel to assess any future transition to ‘defined contribution’ pension funds, which UCU members have staunchly opposed. The proposals also called for the panel to evaluate current and future valuations of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the pension scheme for university staff. An earlier estimate of the USS’ deficit was the catalyst for the UUK’s initial proposed changes to the current pensions structure.

UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt called on members last week to vote in favour of the current proposals, noting that the concessions “put the union in a very strong position to resist cuts to our pensions”.

University staff voting against the suspension of strike action differed on what they viewed the union’s next steps should be, with some advocating for the inclusion of a ‘no detriment’ clause, in which any increased contributions required to maintain the existing benefit structure would be funded entirely by employers.

While the statement by the Cam-

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bridge UCU Executive Committee on Wednesday recommended that members vote ‘no’ on the ballot, it argued that a national rejection of the proposals “should not be taken as a mandate for a ‘no detriment’ negotiating position”.

The Cambridge UCU Executive Committee clarified that their position against the current proposals was “in the spirit of ‘revise and resubmit’”, therefore rejecting the current proposals as being insubstantial, while not necessarily taking the hardline approach on employer negotiations of the ‘no detri-

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ment’ platform.

However, Hunt did not distinguish between the two camps in her open letter to members last week, in which she said that if members voted against the proposals, then the union would prepare for further strike action, in a push for the inclusion of a ‘no detriment’ clause.

Hunt has openly criticised the ‘no detriment’ strategy, arguing that “none” of the vice-chancellors whom she has spoken to “have been prepared to discuss a ‘no detriment’ agreement”.

The UCU ballot was not initially con-

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ceived as providing the deciding factor for future strike action, but was a condition announced in Hunt’s open letter following a UUK statement that employers’ support for the proposals was “conditional on the suspension of strike action”.

The union said it expected the agreement between the fund’s two key stakeholders to be welcomed.

However, it said that, while all planned strike action is suspended, UCU will keep its strike mandate live as a precaution until this has process taken place.

The organisation of the UCU ballot faced early scrutiny by branch members last month, as the initial uncertainty on whether the acceptance of UUK proposals would halt strike action left members feeling that “they no longer had the mandate to vote either way on the fitness of the proposal to be put to ballot”, according to Cambridge UCU vice-president Dr. Sam James.

The national union previously faced backlash from members in late February, when an agreement reached jointly with UUK in national-level negotiations was soundly rejected by branch members.

The effect of past strike action on the content of summer examinations remains unclear, as the University of Cambridge has said that heads of faculty will decide on any changes to examination length, and on whether to remove certain concepts not covered due to lecturers having gone on strike.

However, the Office for Students, a new government watchdog for higher education, has issued guidance that academic standards should not be lowered for examinations whose courses have been incompletely taught due to strike action, over fears of grade inflation.

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The photo of one Newnhamite and her new coat – photographed in Sunday’s snow flurry – has gone viral, receiving worldwide attention and hundreds of thousands of views.

Hannah Jones, a third year Natural Scientist, was taking photos of the snowy scenery in the Newnham gardens on Sunday morning, when Katy Grobicki, her friend and fellow NatSci, shouted down from her window: “Hannah! Wait! I bought a new coat which needs to be worn in the snow! Can you take a photo?”

Grobicki dashed outside wearing her new coat, and Hannah took the photo, which she then posted on the content-aggregation site Reddit, one of the world’s most popular websites, late last night.

Since then, it has been viewed half a million times, reached second position on Reddit’s front page, and received thousands of comments and messages.

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Pet guinea pigs offered places at Lucy Cavendish May 3rd 2018 It’s important to be edgy when choosing your pets. This week, Lucy Cavendish took that ideology to its logical extreme when they bypassed welfare puppies and looked instead to the rodent variation. Their reasons for doing so are numerous; the guinea pig’s Latin name is Cavia porcellus, (or ‘cavy’ to their mates) which, like Lucy CAVendish, has ‘Cav’ in it – the college needs a new and innova-

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▲ Jones’s photo, which achieved viral fame

As of Tuesday afternoon, the post has over 85,000 ‘upvotes’. It has also been shared on Newnham’s Instagram account.

tive way to build its national brand.

According to the College’s Senior Tutor Jane Greatorex, Lucy Cav “are dedicated to promoting mental wellbeing amongst our students, and numerous studies over the years have shown the benefits of owning pets including stressrelief and getting outside to enjoy our beautiful gardens. We hope that our new cavy friends settle in quickly and help relieve any stress over the approaching period of exams.”

Lucy Cavendish believes it is the first Oxbridge college to adopt guinea pigs. Although this isn’t an entirely new venture for the college which previously owned guinea pigs in 1972. However, those ones were used to help with the gardening –

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‘Fairy-tale’ snow photo gets internet fame Jones described the response as a “mixture”, saying there have been “absolutely lovely compliments, some Reddit creeps (‘would smash’), people asking for Cambridge admissions advice, disbelieving cynics (‘That story. Who’s supposed to believe that?’) and of course accusations that the photo is part of a social media campaign orchestrated by a PR company for Hell Bunny [where Grobicki brought her coat]”.

The post’s success drew a huge amount of attention to Hell Bunny, whose website subsequently crashed.

Jones said: “the majority of the responses have been really positive and complimentary, and it was especially nice to see plenty of people in the Reddit comments recognising their old room in Newnham in the background!”

The photo was just a spur of the moment snap that managed to wonderfully capture the brief snowfall in Cambridge.

Even though the snow didn’t stick around in Cambridge for long, it’s nice to see that someone made the most of the opportunity (and their new coat).

an employment decision that caused controversy among many Cambridge animal rights activist groups.

The names of the four guinea pigs, chosen by the students, are Emmeline Squeakhurst, Virguinea Woolf, Ruth Bader Guineasburg and Oreo. We can’t help but feel Oreo may be slightly miffed about this arrangement. Then again, given that he is a guinea pigs, I doubt Oreo knows or cares. When approached for comment, he sort of awkwardly scrambled away.

Student Union Officer Laura McClintock said that “in the short time I’ve been here I’ve missed having pets. I think it’ll be good for us to care for them, and a welcome distraction from deadlines!”

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October 26th 2017 Emmanuel students have been adjusting to life after laundry, following the temporary closure of an in-college service which washed and dried clothes for the College’s members.

Last Monday, Emma’s housekeeping service told students that due to “staff problems which hopefully will be resolved next week when we have a new member of staff ”, the laundry would close for a day to “catch up a bit”.

Nearly two weeks later, students claim the service is still behind schedule.

Housekeeping provisions vary greatly between colleges, but Emma is alone in offering to do its students’ laundry for them.

As financial and time pressures take their toll, one finalist said they were considering new measures: “This does not feel like a sustainable way to live so I am very close to learning how to clean my own clothes and venturing to a laundrette,” they said.

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Protests as Jacob Rees-Mogg debates future of Brexit at Union Conservative MP and prominent Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg, became the target of protests during his visits to the Cambridge Union and the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) on Thursday.

The protests, organised by Cambridge Stays and Gays against Rees-Mogg, opposed the MP’s support for Brexit and his views on gay marriage.

Approximately 85 people in total were in attendance. A protester from Gays against Rees-Mogg, who had organised a ‘Kiss in for Rees-Mogg’, told Varsity: “It’s wrong that he is being used as entertainment,” going on to criticise his voting record on LGBT+ issues while another said they “won’t stand by while the Cambridge Union invites people like him.”

During his speech at CUCA, ReesMogg referred to a scuffle which occurred during his speech last Friday at the University of the West of England, during which six masked protesters interrupted him and a member of the audience was seemingly punched in the face, telling the crowd of almost 250: “You’re a very good audience, unlike somewhere I was speaking recently”.

Following his CUCA appearance, the MP for North East Somerset, known for his Euroscepticism, took part in the Union’s Brexit debate: ‘This House Believes that no deal is better than a bad deal’, alongside former education secretary and fellow Conservative MP, Nicky Morgan, beer magnate Lord Karan Bilimoria, and Lord Andrew Adonis.

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Adonis clashed with Rees-Mogg on a number of issues including the availability of goods post-Brexit. Rees-Mogg refuted the suggestion that Britain would be worse off outside the EU customs union.

He said the common external tariff “favours inefficient producers over consumers” and he “would set it at zero” in order to reduce the price of products.

Meanwhile, Adonis claimed that leaving the common market would result in “shortages of basic goods” and “lorries queuing to get out of country” because of customs checks.

Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, also clashed with her fellow backbencher, saying a chaotic Brexit “will destabilise this country, will destabilise our democracy, and will destabilise Britain’s standing in the world”. She went on to

criticise Brexiteer s who wanted a “minimal tax, minimal regulation country”.

As well as the protests on the night, other groups have come out in opposition to Rees-Mogg’s appearance at the Union. Cambridge Defend Education’s Stella Swain said: “Jacob Rees-Mogg’s intolerance, demonstrated both in his despicable voting record and his public statements, is unacceptable and should not be invited into our university.”

Rees-Mogg has become somewhat of a cult figure amongst young Conservatives in recent years, with his popularity on Instagram and Twitter sparking the ‘Moggmentum’ movement, while his unlikely friendship with Made in Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo, who has previously referred to him as a “sex god”, has become the subject of great tabloid interest.

Louis Ashworth and Anna Menin October 27th 2017 Nearly 100 Cambridge academics have lent their signatures to a statement condemning the “deliberately misleading and racially inflammatory” coverage of the campaign to ‘decolonise’ Cambridge’s English Tripos, following widespread criticism of the treatment of CUSU women’s officer Lola Olufemi in the national press.

Lecturers, professors, readers and other academics – including several course directors – have backed the statement.

Signatories include Ha-Joon Chang, director of Development Studies; Joya Chatterji, director of South Asian Studies; and Adam Branch, director of African Studies.

The Daily Telegraph was denounced by staff, students and the University itself on Wednesday, after it carried a front page photo of Olufemi, author of an open letter calling for decolonisation of the English Faculty, under the headline “Student forces Cambridge to drop white authors”.

The accompanying article said that a Faculty discussion about decolonisation – hosted by the English Faculty’s Teaching Forum and first reported by Varsity last week – meant Cambridge would be forced to drop white writers in favour of black writers.The story was picked up by other outlets, and Olufemi became the target of abuse from online trolls.

The article and front page have been strongly criticised by members of the University and wider public. In a public statement, the University disputed its accuracy and condemned related harassment of Olufemi.

▲ Lola Olufemi, CUSU’s women’s officer, was the subject of abuse and harassment

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Review of the year

Aoife Hogan

October 20th 2017

The University of Cambridge has established a policy on staff-student relationships, marking the university’s first formal approach to relations between students and employed figures of responsibility, along with a number of other initiatives intended to convey the University’s ‘zero tolerance’ stance on harassment and sexual assault.

The new campaign, titled ‘Breaking the Silence’, will be formally launched on 24th October, and primarily takes the form of a website, www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk, which will collate existing policies and channels for help with new initiatives to be rolled out later this term. It is hoped that the website will serve as a memorable, assertive symbol for all students and staff – a single portal for policy information, incident reporting, preventive training, and direct links to routes of support for victims.

The widely-publicised campaign comes at a time when the ‘#metoo’ campaign is dominating social media.

Earlier this year, Varsity reported on a University survey which revealed that 3% of the 6,000 participant Cambridge students had reported sexual assault, with female students seven times more likely to have been the victims of sexual harassment, and nearly six times more likely to have been the victims of sexual assault, than male students.

‘Breaking the Silence’ marks the first decisive action by the University to instill its stance on harassment and sexual assault in the minds of the University community, and to simplify the routes for seeking help and information. It is also the first major campaign of University Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope, who told Varsity: “Cambridge prides itself on

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New campaign to fight sexual harassment being a leader, academically, in terms of research, educationally. It has to be a social leader as well, tackling tough problems such as sexual harassment.

And I think that the leadership of the University has to send the right signals and has to be committed to directly addressing these challenges.

“Dealing with sexual harassment is a responsibility for everyone in the community. People won’t come forward, there won’t be an open discussion, unless there’s an environment in which people feel at least relatively safe. So each and every one of us has to try hard to create that environment.”

The staff-student relationship policy, available on the ‘Breaking the Silence’ website, comes after a Freedom of Information Request submitted to all UK universities by The Guardian in March which revealed that 32% of UK universities, including the University of Cambridge, had no formal policy on emotional or sexual relationships between students and staff.

The report also found that there had been 6 formal allegations of staff-onstudent harassment at the University from the 2011-12 academic year to March 2017, with 5 subsequent investigations and 2 staff members reportedly leaving or changing jobs.

The new policy “discourages” intimate relations between students and staff, “particularly where there is a real or perceived conflict of interest”. It stipulates that “any such relationships have to be disclosed by the staff member to the University and the staff member must withdraw from any professional duties that could lead to accusations of unfair or preferential treatment.”

Another key factor of the campaign is the bolstering of training programs for

❝ Dealing with sexual harassment is a responsibility for everyone in the community ❞

◀ New policies will support harassment victims (posed by model)

staff and students. A flagship project is the ‘Bystander Intervention Initiative’, a program of workshops focusing on equipping students to safely intervene in situations that may lead to harassment or sexual assault. A series of four two-hour workshops will be trialled in Michaelmas and Lent at seven colleges in Cambridge - Pembroke, Jesus, Selwyn, Girton, Queens’, Wolfson, and Sidney Sussex, with students from Corpus Christi also participating.

Developed by the University of the West of England, the workshops are tailored to UK universities, created following the success of similar programs in North America. In April, a Varsity interview with ex-student and sexual assault survivor Nathalie Greenfield probed why policies surrounding harassment and sexual assault at universities are far more common on American campuses than British ones; “The UK never caught on to Title IX”, Nathalie noted, the section of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 which states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

Jan Brighting, facilitator of the Intervention Initiative at Pembroke College, said: “Through the Intervention Initiative, we will try to give students the confidence, in a safe environment, to practice bystander intervention skills so they can challenge or avert a situation.

“Being a bystander is not about walking up the street and seeing a situation and tackling it, it’s about making an intervention, a small distraction, within a student’s friendship group - it’s not about putting people at risk at all.

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October 19th 2017

College chaplains from King’s, Trinity, and St John’s colleges are holding a series of special services in their chapels which aim to provide “inclusive spaces” for LGBT+ Christians to “encounter God”.

A total of six special services have or will be held across the three colleges this term, the next of which will be King’s College’s Critical Mass service on 26th October.

Trinity College chapel will host a Compline+ service on 1st November, followed by another King’s service on 9th November. St John’s Open Table service on 16 November will conclude the series.

King’s ‘Critical Mass’ services are billed as “a new kind of worship for students” which is “radically inclusive for all who have open hearts and open minds”.

Rev’d Andrew Hammond, of King’s, told Varsity that he decided to hold Critical Mass following his duet with drag queen Courtney Act at King’s Affair earlier this year. He said that the reception to the duet had been “extraordinary”. “[It] really brought home to me how widespread is the view that a priest is bound to be rather hidebound and conservative,” he continued, “and made me realise how much work there is to do.

“King’s has been famous for its liberal approach to any number of issues, not least sexuality and more recently gender identity; and while we have felt wholly in tune with this in the Chapel, our formal worship doesn’t really allow us to articulate it much,” Hammond added.

Adonian society faces closure after Peterhouse stops hosting dinners

▲ Rev’d Andrew Hammond with King’s Affair perfomers

Rev’d Carol Barrett Ford, St John’s College chaplain, told Varsity that she decided to hold an Open Table service after identifying “a desire to actively promote inclusion in the Chapel”.

The service will be part of the Open Table organisation, which describes itself as an “ecumenical Christian worship community” offering “a warm welcome” to LGBT+ people, and “all who believe in an inclusive Church”.

It holds services at various places

across the UK, aiming to “draw together the community and relationship life of congregations around the country”.

Barrett Ford described the upcoming service as “a relaxed and informal Eucharistic service” which might also contain “poetry, music, video clips and/ or silence”.

She said that it would be “a safe sacred space”, adding: “The ‘tagline’ for Open Table is ‘Come as you are’ – and it really is as simple as that.”

Louis Ashworth 6th April 2018 The days of the Adonians – one of Cambridge’s most infamous ‘secret’ societies – may have come to an end, after long-time host Peterhouse decided to kick out the dining group.

The society, which holds all-male, invitation-only events, has long been a source of gossip and speculation. Its dinners were once described by Varsity as a “gay Cambridge institution”.

In an email to Adonians this morning, its organiser said: “Those of you who have attended dinners in the past will be saddened to learn that the March dinner was the last. Peterhouse has decided not to host further dinners for us and, as a consequence, no further functions are planned.”

A well-connected member of the society told Varsity that the move was not wholly unexpected, saying: “Tickets have been getting gradually more expensive. I think Peterhouse realised that it wasn’t actually a university society a few years ago and have been trying to shake them off by making them pay normal commercial rates and having their dinners outside of termtime.”

The Adonians, often called the Adonian Society, whose dinners cost a reported £75 a head to attend, is not an official University group, and is understood to find attendees largely through word-ofmouth. The society was described in The Wall Street Journal as “a select group of undergraduates and their faculty admirers, along with hangers-on from the British elite”.

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Class lists saga ends as students get opt-out May 8th 2018

Regent House, the University’s governing body, has confirmed today that students will be offered an ‘easy opt-out’ from the public display of examination results both online and on the Senate House noticeboards, a tradition stretching back to 1748.

In a close vote on the contentious issue, the fellows of Regent House, which include academics and other key figures of the University, approved a Grace calling for students to have the opportunity to opt-out from the class lists. 412 members of Regent House voted in favour of the Grace, while 391 voted against it – a margin of just 21 votes.

Under the new system, students will have the option to choose not to appear in class lists using CamSIS, an online platform accessible to all students through Raven. The window for doing this in time for this year’s Tripos examinations is likely to run from the 10th May until the 1st June.

In response to the vote, Graham Virgo, pro-vice-chancellor for education said: “I welcome the result of the ballot which means that all students are now able to choose to opt-out from having their names published outside the Senate House or in the Reporter.”

“This opt-out will be implemented immediately. Faculties, Departments and Colleges will still have access to the full class-list for their own internal purposes.”

This marks a major change from the current system, whereby students’ names and exam results were available to members of the University, both on printed lists outside Senate House and in the Cambridge University Reporter. Under the current system, students can only

opt-out of the Senate House class lists in exceptional circumstances, after a lengthy, bureaucratic process – while the results of all students taking exams are automatically published in the Reporter.

Only 86 names were omitted last year.

CUSU President Daisy Eyre said the change was “fantastic,” and that “it is clear that this is what students want and what makes sense for the future of the University.” She added that “it’s been a long time coming, but maybe we can turn the page on class lists for now.”

The public display of class lists, in which Cambridge students’ exam grades are posted outside Senate House, has been a point of contention for several years. It was the subject of the campaign

▲ Class lists, showing course results, have traditionally been published outside Senate House

‘Our Grade, Our Choice’, which in 2015 gathered over 1,200 signatures for a petition calling on the University to introduce an easier opt-out system.

That campaigning issue was picked up by CUSU, and in late 2015, a poorlyattended meeting of CUSU Council saw opposition of the Lists enshrined in student union policy. Abolishing the lists became a key lobbying focus of CUSU President Priscilla Mensah. Around the same time, the University was launching its own review, seeking to address the issue of “the future of class lists”.

In April 2016, Varsity revealed that the review – led by Professor Graham Virgo, the pro-vice-chancellor for education – had been completed, and that the

❝ It’s been a long time coming, but maybe we can turn the page on class lists for now. ❞

General Board of the Faculties had recommended that the lists be abolished, a recommendation which was subsequently passed by the University Council. The review called publication of the Lists “undesirable, unnecessary, and without benefit to the proper business of the collegiate University”.

Documentation showed Mensah had told the review that students backed abolition, based on the CUSU Council vote.

A Grace was published in July which, if left unopposed, would have meant the end of the lists.

At that point, however, there was a reversal. Members of Regent House – Cambridge’s sovereign governing body of academics and senior staff – blocked the Grace, triggering a vote on whether it should pass. Additionally, a student campaign, ‘Save the Class List’, had gathered enough signatures to force CUSU to hold a referendum on its own policy.

In November 2016, students voted in a referendum to change CUSU’s policy, reversing its position almost a year after it had first been set, to instead campaign for the lists to be maintained. In December, Regent House voted, rejecting the Grace. With the lists’ fortunes totally flipped, the University began a new review into their future, and the possibility of a simplified opt-out.

Those discussions were derailed, however, by news of incoming EU data protection legislation, which University administrators worried could make publishing the lists illegal. The University sought legal advice on if it could even proceed in publishing the lists, let alone create a simplified opt-out. In December, Varsity revealed that the University Council would propose to implement the simple opt-out process that has now been adopted.

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University rules against divestment

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Noella Chye, Rosie Bradbury and Stephanie Stacey June 8th 2018 In a rejection of widespread calls for the University to commit to full divestment from the fossil fuel sector, Cambridge instead plans to adopt the controversial recommendations made by its divestment working group.

In accepting the report’s recommendations, the University would commit to ‘considered’ divestment – preserving a policy position of avoiding direct investments in coal and tar sands, and keeping indirect investments to a minimum.

Varsity understands that the Council, however, intends to reject the report’s recommendation to invest 10% of its indirect investments in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funds – suggested as a means of encouraging ethical investments in the short term – and opt instead to employ an ESG officer in the University Investment Office.

The University Council – the chief decision-making body – met today to make a final decision about whether to divest its presently-held indirect investments in fossil fuels. The University declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting. A spokesperson said: “Minor drafting changes were requested to the Council’s draft response.” The decision made today will undergo final review before an official announcement on Monday.

An open letter signed by 200 academics described the report as “a transparent attempt to thwart the direct and positive action of divestment by offering a range of more distant and ill-defined proposals in its place”, detailing what they deemed a mischaracterisation of campaigners’ concerns, and directly disputing the report’s claims that it is, for now, too difficult to commit to full divestment.

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The working group was set up in 2017 after the passage of a grace through Regent House calling for full divestment, in order to examine the “advantages and disadvantages” of divestment.

The outcome of today’s meeting comes as a disappointment to environmental activists in Cambridge. For the past three years, the question of whether to divest has seen growing support from Cambridge’s student body, mobilising climate activists into escalating action.

The student drive for full divestment has been led by campaigning group

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society since 2015. Angus Satow, one of the group’s founding members, described a commitment to full divestment as a decision that would “reverberate around the world, and would be a major blow against the industry most responsible for climate breakdown.”

Satow described today’s decision as a “farce”, claiming that the working group report “ignores Cambridge’s own science” following the recent publication of an independent study by Cambridge academics, which argued that divest-

ment from fossil fuels is “both a prudential and necessary thing to do”.

In the weeks leading up to the release of the working group report, Zero Carbon Society escalated action to try to influence the Council’s decision. Three Zero Carbon members went on a sixday hunger strike, while other students embarked on a seven-day occupation of Greenwich House.

A University spokesperson called today’s meeting as “a positive discussion on the Divestment Working Group report.”

Students at Downing and King’s were treated to some quality time with farm animals at their respective welfare days this weekend.

Downing gave its students a chance to see hedgehogs, rabbits, and alpacas.

This was rivalled by the welfare provisions at King’s, where a group of Shetland ponies visited the backs; lucky students had the chance to walk ponies around the lawn. King’s Student Union president Alice Hawkins said that the event “provided the perfect sunshiney break to laugh and be happy together even if just for a few hours”.

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Winging it is a win for Sidney Nug Soc Commemorating the College’s founding

by Lady Sidney in 1596, fast food afficiando members of Sidney Sussex’s new ‘Nug Soc’ met to consume 1596 chicken nuggets. A student who attended Nug Soc’s inaugural gathering confirmed that “all nuggets were consumed,” and reported “very high turnout”.

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Double glory for Light Blues at Boat Race

Lawrence Hopkins

March 24th 2018

The Light Blues scored a stunning double victory over Oxford in the Boat Races today, with both crews taking solid victories over their opponents.

The famous double-header race got off to an immediately strong start, with the Cambridge women comfortably bettering their Oxford counterparts.

On a dreary day in London, the Light

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❝ The famous doubleheader race got off to an immediately strong start ❞

Blues continually put distance between themselves and the chasing Oxford boat to win for the second year in a row.

From the off, the Cambridge women went from strength to strength, maintaining a high stroke rate to carry themselves to a large lead at the halfway stage which they would not relinquish.

Regularly motoring along at a stroke rate above 40 strokes per minute, the Cambridge crew’s international pedigree

shown through as they won with ease.

Victory was secured in a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds, over half a minute slower than last year’s iteration of the age-old contest, though the slower pace was still enough to hand the Light Blues victory.

Leading from the start, the Cambridge Men’s Blue Boat avenged last year’s two and a half length defeat.

With the skies grey, and the water

▲ Both teams scored solid victories

likewise, Cambridge brightened the day for Light Blue fans the world over.

Coxed by President Hugo Ramambason, and with fellow returning Blue Freddie Davidson in the stroke seat, Cambridge were runaway winners.

The emphatic victory for the Women and Men sealed a clean sweep of races on the Tideway for Cambridge boats following victories by both reserve crews earlier in the day.

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Cambridge tops Guardian league table for eighth year running louis ashworth

Isobel Griffiths

May 29th 2018

The University of Cambridge has retained its top spot in The Guardian’s university league table for the eighth year in a row, with its course satisfaction rating rising 29 places above last year’s.

Cambridge achieved a perfect score of 100 once more, with Oxford coming in second with 97.2. Cambridge has widened its lead, as last year it was ahead of Oxford by just 1.9 points.

Alongside the course satisfaction ranking, which saw Cambridge soar from 44th place in 2018 to 15th place for 2019, satisfaction with teaching at Cambridge has risen from 15th to third place.

Subject rankings have seen wide variation this year. While Cambridge came top in 11 of the subject league tables that it featured on, its rankings fell in some subjects. Cambridge lost the top spot in Architecture, Biosciences, Computer Science, and Economics. In one drastic change, Music at Cambridge fell from eighth place in 2018, to 24th place in the 2019 ranking.

However, it was not all bad news for Cambridge in its subject rankings, as the Archaeology, Medicine, and Philosophy courses all rose this year to take the top spot. Cambridge continues to top more subject tables than any other university, with Oxford coming in second by coming at the top of seven.

For the first time this year, the tables also included a “continuation score” based on how many students first-year students continue into second-year.

Cambridge scored top here, joint with Oxford, with 99% of students continuing into second year.

Cantabs show ‘defiant love’ on Transgender Day of Remembrance

▲ Cambridge continues to top more subject tables than any other university

The Guardian’s score is calculated based on the factors “that are most important to students”, including how much they benefit from teaching, their job prospects leaving university, and whether students liked the university and their course. They exclude research quality, labelling it as “of limited relevance to students.”

A spokesperson for the University of Cambridge said: “We are pleased that this ranking, like many others, reflects the fact that the University of Cambridge is among a small group of the most respected and influential higher education

institutions in the UK.” The table is compiled using data Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and National Student Survey (NSS) data.

The Guardian explained that they also used some results from the 2016 NSS this year, following the NUS boycott of the 2017 survey, as otherwise there would have been insufficient data to calculate rankings for some subjects.

Cambridge also continues to top the Complete University Guide tables, and is ranked as the best university in the UK, and fifth-best university globally, in the QS World University Rankings.

Stephanie Stacey November 24th 2017 Cambridge marked Transgender Day of Remembrance on Monday with two vigils, which had been organised by Ali Hyde, former CUSU transgender representative and incoming CUSU LGBT+ committee president, and Mariah Hickman, incoming CUSU transgender representative.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed internationally on the 20th of November each year to honour the people killed as a result of transphobia, and to draw attention to the continued violence facing the transgender community.

The first vigil was open only to transgender people, and took place by candlelight on Jesus Green, while the second took place in Emmanuel College Chapel and was open to anyone who wished to mark the day.

Speakers read out the names of those killed and several minutes of silence were observed, followed by the lighting of candles.

People were also invited to write messages of support and solidarity on a transgender pride flag.

The Trans Murder Monitoring Project revealed that there were 325 reported murders of trans and gender-diverse people between 1st October 2016 and 30th September 2017, with the majority of these killings – 171 – occurring in Brazil.

This is an increase from the same reporting period over the previous year, when 295 people lost their lives.

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Cambridge on camera The year in pictures ‘LEGO Classicists’ made a mini Mary Beard

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Cambridge took both victories in The Varsity Matches, with the women’s and men’s teams both beating Oxford

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Rugby victory ▶

It’s lit ▲

A new era ▲ Stephen Toope is installed as Cambridge’s new vicechancellor

Hundreds of students turned out to call for decolonisation of Cambridge’s curricula and to show solidarity with Lola Olufemi

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Caius is lit up for the e-Luminate festival

A video of Wolfson’s praelector, Brian Cox, scootering down the college’s new ramp received thousands of views online

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Review of the year

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People will say things like ‘imagine not being able to have an abortion’ – I have never had to imagine

● Catherine Lally meets the Cambridge students going home to repeal Ireland’s abortion ban

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t’s really Ireland moving forward into the present,” said Niamh Ryan, a second-year Magdalene student from Dublin, on the prospect of the country’s abortion ban being lifted. Ryan is one of at least seven Cambridge students who plan to fly back to Ireland next week, despite exam season, to vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which has left reproductive rights in Ireland some of the most restrictive in Europe.

On 25th May, Irish voters will decide whether to repeal the country’s ban on abortion outside of extreme cases where the mother’s life is endangered.

The postal vote has not been extended to those living outside Irish soil, leaving ▲ Helen Jennings (left) and Niamh Ryan Cambridge students who wish to vote with no choice but to travel home. In the to access abortion services – estimated working towards. However, she added 2015 referendum, thousands returned as just under ten a day in 2015 – when that “it’s not about me really, it’s also home to make Ireland the first country she flies from Dublin to Stansted airport the women who just couldn’t afford to in the world to legalise same-sex mar- at the start of a new Cambridge term. have a child,” or whose wellbeing would riage by popular vote.

“I’m sure there’s been women on that be adversely affected by being forced to Funded by the NUS Women’s Cam- flight before that are traveling to get carry a pregnancy to term. paign, the CUSU Women’s Campaign has abortions […] and I always think that Eimear Ní Chathail, a third-year also offered nine bursaries worth up to £110 woman is at such a tough time in her at Magdalene from Dublin, said she each to Irish students at Cambridge who life and she’s afraid to tell people […] feels that if the ban lifts, it will mark plan to vote ‘yes’ on the secret ballot. and here’s me going off to Cambridge, the end of a “certain sense that Ireland Ryan, who is flying home to vote ‘yes’, which is like a dream come true.” is a morally-superior Catholic country”. labelled the referendum “a monumental Ryan said “it was the contrast be- Ní Chathail criticised a “two-facedness chance for our generation”. “I’m very tween those two things” that made her about Irish society”, where some from proud to be Irish”, she said, but noted her realise she could not miss her chance the ‘no’ campaign will claim that Ireland disappointment in Ireland’s “restrictive to vote. is “is like the defender of the unborn,” rules on abortion, and the fact that we She added that her stance on repro- when in reality “Irish people do continue have laws that are so lacking in compas- ductive rights changed as a formerly pro- to have abortions“, and the amendment sion for people, and for women.” life teenager, with the realisation that if is only “forcing them to travel to EngShe is reminded of the women who she became pregnant, she “would have land for it”. fly from Ireland to the United Kingdom had to give up everything [she had] been Expressing her disappointment at

the lack of an available postal vote, Ní Chathail noted that the “momentum to change” voting laws may come from showing “how much people living abroad do care about their franchise” by returning to vote.

All of the women interviewed by Varsity found that moving to study in England made them notice how different feminist discussions can be in a country where abortions are readily accessible.

Ní Chathail said that at her school “there was a lot of quite strong anti-abortion discussion,” and students were made to watch “a video of abortion,” a fact she said shocks the English students she tells.

Some students from Northern Ireland, which currently has similar restrictions on abortions, have been actively campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote in the South.

Abortions for Northern Irish women on the British mainland are NHS-funded due to an amendment from Labour MP Stella Creasy in 2017. Before then, Northern Irish women found themselves paying £900 for abortions in Great Britain.

Higgins praised Creasy and the work of the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, but noted that travel is still not funded for Northern Irish women, “and there’s still no funding for Southern Irish women.”

If the abortion ban is lifted in the Republic, Northern Irish women may be able to have an abortion in the Republic, instead of travelling to England.

However, she noted that the legislation is not guaranteed to extend “provision

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to Northern Irish women.”

Helen Jennings, a second-year Pembroke student from Down in Northern Ireland, believes that Northern Ireland being left as one of the few places where abortions are not available in Europe “might bring it to the attention of political forces much more, because it’s embarrassing” for the government. She added that placing Northern Ireland “outside of the rest of the UK” in political discourse allows situations that would be treated as “really quite huge issues” if they were to take place in England, can be “passed off ” in Northern Ireland.

Niamh Curran, a second year at Fitzwilliam from Northern Ireland, noted that English students often hold misconceptions about Northern Ireland, and said she feels compelled “to inform people that we don’t have access to abortion,” adding that “so often, people will say things like ‘imagine not being able to have an abortion’ – I have never had to imagine.”

As the devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January 2017, Jennings said that campaigners are “completely without any means of political activism to make the law change” in Northern Ireland, and are instead channeling campaigning efforts towards the abortion referendum in the Republic.

Jennings added that she “stands in solidarity with our sisters and the Republic of Ireland,” and asked Irish students – if they are registered to vote – to “please go home and vote to be our ‘yes’.”

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A letter to my fresher self: Surviving Cambridge as a black girl

leave them shook. versity in Cambridge because people will You will arrive and feel a pressure have a tough time conceptualising the to be someone else. You won’t realise fact that you could possibly have earned as you subconsciously try to play up your place here. You won’t find people to what you think a typical Cambridge who look like you memorialised on the student does. You’ll change your accent, walls and that won’t make it any easier go to events you know you don’t enjoy, - but don’t forget that you belong. and try to befriend people that aren’t You will stand out and be made conlike you in attempts to conform – but scious of your difference for your whole you’ll only be able to keep this up for so time here and not everyone will get it. long. When the real you resurfaces and Not everyone will get what it is about you find the courage to admit to your existing in Cambridge as a black girl new friends, and to yourself, that you that makes it difficult or why. You will actually hate Wednesday Cindies and meet a lot of people who proclaim they VKs, you’ll be okay. are ‘not racist’ but don’t recognise how When you come back next term with their inaction makes them complicit, braids, don’t let your housemates smell why you value safe spaces, or even why and touch your hair. It may take you a your experience of Cambridge is neceswhile to muster up the courage to tell sarily different. Remember that it isn’t people to stop, and to remind people your duty to lecture and to explain bethat you are not some exotic cause the emotional labour creature to be caressed – but will take its toll. You are not when you find the strength, the appointed spokesperson Remember that for black people, and don’t do it anyway.

Oh. Boys? Don’t bother. feel the pressure to be. you are not Tell every aunty that is tellRemember that you are alone. Black not alone. Black women may ing you that you are going to Cambridge to find yourself a few and far between here, women may be husband, that much to their but find them, build a sisterdisappointment, it’s not gohood and strengthen each be few and ing to happen. You’ll learn other. Find shoulders to cry far between quickly that desirability is on because you will need racialised and that not evehere, but find them. Find support systems ryone loves your dark skin that work for you, and take them, build a solace in them. Communias much as you do, that society’s beauty standards don’t like the African Caribsisterhood and ties include people that look like bean Society will be there you. So, when someone hits strengthen each to make you feel at home you with “you’re fit for a again. Take time to look afother black girl”, tell them that’s ter yourself. Bake and cook not a compliment. You are jollof even amid the stress beautiful, and to the people that tries to break you. who don’t see that, even your own, let It will get better. I don’t know if that’s it be their loss. Find the beauty in your because you will become immune to the blackness in spite of the people who blows, or because you will get stronger can’t.

– but it will get better. You’ll find ways Don’t forget that, regardless, you beto make Cambridge work for you and long here. You’ll have people who think you will be fine. In fact, you’ll be more you are here to tick a ‘diversity’ box. You than fine. You’ll make friends for life, will also be asked time and time again you’ll leave your mark and eventually, whether or not you go to the other uniyou’ll enjoy it.

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Ore Ogunbiyi writes to her fresher self, reflecting on how her race has defined her time here When you walk into your first supervision, you will probably be the only black girl in the room. Get used to it, because it won’t get much better. But don’t let that scare you and, more importantly, don’t let anyone make you feel small or misplaced. Don’t be silent in attempts to assuage your white peers and supervisors. You’ve earned your place there, so make your presence known. Don’t ever feel the need to make yourself palatable, or bitesize. Instead, fill the room with examples of Nkrumah and Mobutu that your supervisor thinks are ‘adventurous’, and enjoy unpacking the racism in the works of Kant that your degree

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so glorifies. Their discomfort is not your problem.

You will have supervisors who will call you defensive and angry, and who will project their own prejudiced stereotypes onto you as you walk into the room. Cry in private, write a killer essay, and prove them wrong. You will also have supervisors who will understand and appreciate your need to veil your work in your own experiences, who will recognise its value and reward you for it.

So, bathe every essay in black girl magic and write in resistance to the Eurocentrism of academia that did not see you coming.

▲ When you come back with braids, don’t let your housemates touch your hair

It’s not always easy, though. The Black Jacobins you really want to read probably won’t be on your reading lists, you won’t find the support you need when you want to write your dissertation on Nigeria, and trying to go the extra mile to show your supervisors what a decolonised curriculum could look like will exhaust you. But where you can, do it anyway.

Don’t be surprised when your lecture on industrialisation makes no mention of slavery, or when your white friends don’t understand why that’s a problem.

Don’t be afraid to ask the unnerving questions at the end of the lecture and

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Christ’s College

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erhaps you applied because Christ’s came first alphabetically.

Perhaps the round lawn tempted you. Perhaps you were fortunate enough to be pooled to Christ’s. Or perhaps you were told that Christ’s had a friendly reputation. It’s the ‘Goldilocks’ college – not too big, nor too small. News may spread like wildfire, but you’re never far from a friendly face.

Friendships formed fast in the flurry of Freshers’ Week 2015. Some events, we wouldn’t remember the next day, never mind three years later – an introduction to port and Curry King didn’t help. For better or for worse, many of those memories will stay with us. For what we can’t remember, we can be sure: the porters saw everything.

Supervisions started and Christ’s (and its unlimited sides) became home. Friday life was attended religiously, we ‘married’ young and fought to the death in the ‘Hunger Games’. That first term flew by.

As did the next one, and the next. Before we knew it, May Week was upon us and we were dancing in the Formal Hall which had felt so daunting at Matriculation only months before.

With first year over, we eagerly awaited parenthood. Following the political challenge of the room ballot, year two brought kids and the JL episodes. We saw change: Christ’s welcomed its first female master, the JCR got a new constitution, we won gold in the NUS Green Impact Colleges Award, and the decision was made to fly the rainbow flag every year for LGBT+ History Month. Bops, BBQs and Halfway Hall brought us together and suddenly we were sitting exams at the start of a sweltering summer. We cooled off at our own peril in the green pool, Chaplain’s teas became our lifeline, and peace signs were in abundance at the Summer of ’69 garden party. We came second in the Tompkins Table, and new

societies such as Art and Chill, the Nicol Society and Christ’s Cycling Club sprang up. Before long, the MML-ers had made a smart pact to flee the country and the laundry no longer purloined our 20ps.

It is clear that we are a year of diverse talent: scholars, journalists, Blues, choristers, thesps, Union-hacks, turf-goers, rowers, musicians, Memebridge heroes, and those who proficiently prop up the bar in the Buttery, make up our community.

We’ve worked hard and contributed a great deal to Christ’s and the University. We have played in three sports days against Wadham; the women’s football team won the Plate Final again; and currently 15 Christ’s students are full-blues and 7 are half-blues, representing the University in over 22 sports. Following the Boathouse rebuild, rowing is going from strength to strength, having seen success for M1, who got blades in last year’s Mays, and W1 who were inches away! CADS has also triumphed thanks to dedicated individuals. The Real Housewives of Disney was a baptism of fire, whilst A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and annual pantomimes have demonstrated talent and commitment. CCMS continues to shine with highlights including Week 5 blues, open-mic nights and, most recently, a female composers concert.

As our degrees come to an end, we will count the finals. And I don’t mean tripos. It’s the final Friday lifes (minus the stamps), the final brunches, the final queue for potato-based 6pm Hall, the final ‘JCR-guments’ (green Monday, anyone?), which we will miss. Soon enough, we will be dancing in the moonlight at the May Ball, and things might seem very final.

Let’s often remember the time we had at Christ’s, the things we did and the people we met.

Nancy Thorpe

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Churchill College

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fter three years living and studying at Churchill, I have to admit I am still not a great fan of its unique architecture.

Arriving in Michaelmas 2015, feeling overwhelmed and nervous, I thought the place required an urgent refit of its battered windows!

Fortunately, my experiences during Freshers’ Week proved that the new cohort was a friendly and sociable group of people. As per tradition, Freshers’ Week began with a pub crawl led by our new College parents. But, thanks to the Rugby World Cup, most pubs were too crowded, so we headed to what was meant to be the last stop on the crawl and has proved to be a regular haunt amongst many of us: Wetherspoon’s.

After Matriculation dinner and ‘experiencing’ Churchill PAV for the first time, the work began. But first year was full of exciting novelties to distract us from the constant supply of reading lists. Formal Hall was a regular fixture in most calendars. Many donned their most outlandish Christmas jumpers for each year’s specially themed Formal Hall. The first Spring Ball, featuring Basshunter, was a much-anticipated event which, owing to unlimited alcohol and great music, did not disappointment. Perhaps most enjoyable, however, was Big Narstie’s cameo appearance at our second Spring Ball.

We’ve also witnessed change whilst at Churchill. The JCR committee took a stand on the environment by adopting an organic waste disposal scheme. Significant structural change was made to the committee to improve the representation of minority groups. And the traditional JCR Christmas Formal was elevated to a Superformal which included live music and a silent disco.

Many Churchillians have excelled in an array of University sports from

powerlifting to ultimate frisbee. Thanks to the Churchill College Sport Facebook page, the rest of us never missed out on the action. A special mention must go to the College Ladies Netball team who won Cuppers for the first time this year.

Students have also represented the College in University orchestras and bands, and by producing and acting in University shows.

After three years of hard work and fun, our Cambridge experience is over. At times, it has not been easy but as quoted on our freshers’ t-shirts and in the words of Sir Winston himself, ‘difficulties mastered are opportunities won’. My experience has confirmed College’s propaganda to be true; Churchill is a friendly, unfussy and community-spirited place. Our memories of our time here shall remain with us forever.

Patrick Deady

Jet Photographic

W.Abbot F.Akinde-Hummel N.L.Ammaturo Z.Arain D.Argyrou A.Avraam Y.Badr M.L.Balanescu K.Banga E.H.S.Barbier N.J.Bennett A.V.Bennett A.R.Bough R.D.Bowen A.T.Brice L.J.Bridger M.C.Broughton S.J.Buckton G.L.Bulso A.Calbet K.Cawley M.A.R.Chowdhury I.Cechladze T.Y.S.Chua O.Crawford T.Crooks K.Da-Cunha P.Deady L.Dean I.Dewhurst R.Dimitriou T.Du J.Durant M.Edwards T.Fazmin E.Fennell P.Fernando B.Fitzsimmons R.Geeson R.S.Ghiti S.K.Gilbert L.Gimberis L.Gimeno M.Gorka L.Gostelow M.Gough E.Gravestock S.Gulrajani A.Gupta C.Haefliger M.Han P.Hardalupas A.Harker A.Heavers Z.Heckhausen J.Hinde J.Holland E.J.Hollis D.Howard T.Irvine I.S.Jeffers S.Jelley C.D.Jones K.S.Kejiou A.I.Kerekgyarto A.Kiourlappos K.J.Kirk A.I.Koetje N.Z.Kraewinkels A.M.Kuenzi K.Lau V.Lee I.Leszczynska J.Li X.E.M.Lim S.G.Littlewood J.E.Macdonald S.T.Mann L.Martin S.McCann P.Clarke P.W.Milczek J.R.Miller A.Moallim R.J.Monie E.Moon N.Morgulchik Z.Moustiri I.Muir A.Munday D.Nembhard E.Offer H.J.Oh S.I.Pan K.Patel S.Patel E.Persson R.Prins G.Puglisi M.Puleva N.J.Reyner E.A.Robinson A.V.B.Robson A.M.Rochussen J.G.Rose P.D.Rugg A.A.Shah G.J.Shang J.A.Shuttleworth L.M.Smith V.Soltuz A.Sorokin A.Stavrou R.M.Strachan B.Szépkùti T.Tasker E.Tay D.Taylor L.Tomlinson T.L.Tse S.G.D.Turner M.W.J.Twomey T.J.R.Upton K.Vasiliauskas S.Y.Vora K.L.T.Ward H.Ward K.Weaver A.Weisz R.N.West D.J.Wheeler M.A.Wigmore A.F.Winsor A.M.L.Wolffe L-P.Xhonneux K.N.K.Young J.W.Yuan M.Zadurian J.R.Zhan T.Zhu M.Zolczer

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The Colleges

Clare College

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ne recent Tab article identified Clare’s ‘Blue Planet II’ alterego as just ‘one in a shoal of unidentifiable herring’, but the graduating year of 2018 have done all we can to prove them wrong. A diverse bunch of highachievers – including charity fundraisers, choral scholars, a Cambridge footlight, a Union President, a University rower, a lacrosse superstar, an EU employee, and a few inchoate crabs – were all among the eager freshers queuing up to sign the matriculation book three years ago, and they’ve certainly put Clare firmly on the University map.

In fact, it’s proved an eventful few years, although we don’t seem to have brought the College much luck: we’ve lived through the sad loss of the iconic cherry tree, the demise of the stone cold (Chilly Pebble, anyone?), and the slow and excruciating death of Clare Ents. However, it’s not all doom and gloom. A thrifty bunch, we pride ourselves on spending the least money in Cellars on Matriculation Night in living memory, and the rowers will tell you all about their successes on the Cam – whether you want them to or not.

Through the highs and lows, key lessons have been learnt: do not go on the roof or you will be terminated; yellow is a colour that suits everyone; Wednesday = pizzaday; Lord Grabiner does not, in fact, like sausage sandwiches; four for £10 is an absolute bargain and let no-one tell you otherwise; smoking is not permitted.

Joking aside, I know that these three years at Clare have provided us all with memories we will never forget. Time spent celebrating at formal – the company almost as Supreme as the chicken – or gossiping about Kuda Club Cambridge the morning after the night before. Cups of tea and bowls of pasta. A wedding ceremony on a sun-dappled evening.

Hugs, post-exam, cava-soaked. A Great Hall filled with baubles and cracker jokes.

Cookies from the cookie-fairy. Choir practice echoing through golden Old Court.

Late-night pints in Cellars as the bar staff play their favourite 90s tunes and someone drunkenly demands Mr Brightside just one more time. Voyages on the Clarebuoyant.

May Ball, fairy lights, friends. The four seasons of the Avenue: spring flowers, summer heat, autumn leaves, March (???) snow. One of five punting accidents witnessed. One of a 50 doughnuts with Catherine and Julie. One of a 150 freshers successfully intimated into avoiding the LCR. One of 1,500,000 conversations with Peter. One fateful invite to David Attenborough’s 90th birthday party.

Although it hasn’t always been easy to navigate what can sometimes be a stressful and disorientating environment, Clare has proved a beautiful, inspiring, and, above all, kind place to call home, with the College community providing a common and supportive framework for everyone’s unique Cambridge experience. From naïve and wide-eyed Clarefresh, to hip and happening Clarestale, to wise and wizened Claremould – it’s been an absolute honour, and I feel so lucky to graduate alongside the people who have gotten me this far, in the place that has proved the setting for so much. Let’s just hope nobody faints.

Laura Minoli

Lafayette Photography

E.R.P.Cockman H.Grain A.Roy J.K.Kooner M.R.Jones A.Wang J.R.Alstott S.Kelly I.C.Rudd S.E.Kakarala T.Sadiq A.Dupas M.R.P.Gordon L.S.Perry E.Rechter L.Sabatini V.Avasthi V.W.K.Kwok S.Berdugo N.K.Cooper E.Minns T.S.Gale H.E.Llambias Maw M.Gilbert C.H.C.Holliday E.Kasoar B.R.Williams S.R.Smithies B.Lee J.Ahmed J.W.J.Teo M.Chini P.H.M.Beeley A.G.Harding A.A.Lakhani E.H.Burn S.D.Young P.L.Slay S.J.Stewart J.E.Gonzalez-Prada E.Sbaraini J.I.Surkes J.F.Tothill W.J.Broadbelt M.Uncio Ribera L.B.Allain Chapman C.A.F.Camm H.Hao E.A.Burbidge R.A.Mohammed G.Bliard V.S.Thakur J.Cleary W.R.Mateer T.Ashton D.Chen W.R.Kitchen C.Garrod O.Brett H.R.Bean T.A.Hilbourne K.T.F.Chan G.M.Lundon C.M.E.E.von Thungen-Reichenbach T.Hession H.Castle K.Sohi A.D.Gurr T.J.Mullock R.Gourley W.H.Clare F.J.B.Langham J.Clay R.Conci D.Benson S.Sheth D.M.Horyza F.Ireland H.Ibrahim-Hashi H.A.Evans T.Compton R.J.L.Fairhead A.Waquet E.N.Furness Y.Philip-McKenzie H.L.Perkin M.van Gils J.A.C.Winter E.S.Yang M-K.Wieser L.M.Marsden B.M.L.D.Santos H.Stuart-Brown Y.Lin H.A.Bartholomew L.B.Minoli V.Davies N.Illasova K.G.Chapman F.J.Tudor J.T.Thornton C.V.Murphy M.T.De Silva Wijeyeratne A.L.Crucefix W.Barrie M.J.R.Barr S. McEvoy S.Luu A.C.Arnold K.A.Irwin A.Kelly-Lyth A.J.O’Neill A.Chakrabarty H.R.Fytche G.Stoimenova C.P.Sandifer L.E.Brown A.M.Ridley E.H.P.Bell P.S.Petkar L.Ji C.J.Lovell G.Sandle C.E.Rowland G.N.Sparrow A.Y.Huang M.Tasso de Almeida R Reis Cocco A.E.Jennings K.McGregor S.Zhang E.Jackson D.S.Homer R.Jamnadass N.Gross N.Wilson Dr A.Stillman Ms J.Wyburd Dr F.Parker Dr R.Harris Dr P.Fara Lord T.Grabiner Dr C.Weiss Dr J.Hawkey Dr T.Chesters Mr A.Johnson Dr H.Jahn C.Bain C.E.Macaulay C.N.Leadbeater J.A.Warbrick A. Panzeri

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The Colleges

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f you ever stumble upon, or are fortunate enough to be invited to, our small and quirky college at the edge of Cambridge, you’ll realise straight away that Clare Hall isn’t like the other colleges. Besides the architects’ obvious obsession with slanting roofs, you’ll notice that formality and hierarchy have made way for openness and warmth, frequently mixed with coffee or wine. There is a tightly-knit community here that is very special in Cambridge.

The moment you set foot in Clare Hall, you’ve not only become part of a college, you’ve also become part of a family. Staff, fellows, life members, and students alike all interact and socialise on a daily basis.

For many people, the student–fellow dinners are the highlight of this, and they are an amazing chance to get to know the many different fellows of the college, and to emerge yourself in conversations spanning the spectrum of the diverse interests and backgrounds represented at Clare Hall. I cannot help but show off the College’s secret room behind the bookshelf (which anticlimactically is filled with yoga mats and cleaning supplies).

The student body itself is a very active one, and we have been extremely fortunate to have a great Graduate Student Body committee this year. We kicked off the year with a fabulous Welcome Week, and this is when many new friendships were born. But that was only the start. Where would you have truly come to know your new college friends if not for the parties, quizzes, and jazz formals? And where else would you have discovered their true passions, if not for the karaoke party and the Eurovision screening? We’ve even made friends with people from Oxford, when we visited our sister College, St Cross, and when they came to Clare Hall for an excellent formal dinner.

Besides all that, there are many more

people without whom our time at Clare Hall would not be as wonderful. We can always count on having a fantastic meal in hall, thanks to Claire, Pat, and all other kitchen staff members. Without our tutorial secretary, Djamila, and all her hard work, the College wouldn’t be able to keep running. And finally, where would we be if we couldn’t ask the porters for a spare key once we’ve locked ourselves out of our rooms?

It’s the people that make the journey through Cambridge and Clare Hall so unique and amazing. I hope you’ll look back at your time here with a smile. Even though you will graduate, move away, and change the world for the better, you’ll always be part of the college as a Life Member, and in this way, you’ll be part of the Clare Hall family. Thank you for making this place so special.

Tim Coorens

2017 MATRICULATION/Lafayette Photography

K.Mandalapu Muralikrishnan S.Ísaksson E.N.Regan J.L.Kaplan C.Qin A.Fernandez L.de la Gorgendière E.Irwin C.de Miramon K.Li K.Pruś S.Ackigoz N.O.H.Albers-Schónberg A.M.S.Wu L.A.Hase E.J.Goodacre M.H.J.van der Maas B. Thorgeirsdottir G.Levy X.Zhang L.Kim I.Huber C.Raftogianni R.Alexander K.K.Wong T.F.Haber M.Remi P.Y.R.Lai I.J.P.M.Timoteo M.A.Anjirbag M.L.Herzfeld-Schild R.Eldem R.Pakbaz C.Cobbold M.García-Salmones Rovira Y.Okuda C.Morfeo T.Wall S.McKinley N.Iwata H.Dahmen T.Stuart-Buttle A.Graves M.Le Gargasson P.Palios E.Matías Casacuberta Y.A.K.Cheng C.N.J.Troake-Lindsay F.Thiel B.R.S.Roso B.Giokul M.S.Zarepour A.Laharty M.P.L.Pereira A.A.Cairncross J.C.Simeon E.A.Rowe F.Spalding E.Artacho N.Sievi C.Qu D.C.M.Robinson J.D.Eddison-Cook D.David-Vincent T.Begg P.A.Nielsen A.Chung A.Garriga Alonso M.Cekic N.Cu Unjieng L.To Figueras D.Schimmelpenninck van der Oye V.Chakraborty J.W.Matthews N.Khosla A.Lord M.Trofimova A.Vladimirov M.Riabiz J.Xu T.W.T.Wang M.J.Evans J.K.H.Choi G.Tomasini M.Giordano H.Masaood L.Tang M.R.Tonelli F.C.Eastwood D.L.Gosling P.K.Swart M.M.M.Henning J.A.Quent M.S.M.Megahas M.E.Mulroe C.M.Saulina H.M.Charlton A.Nadalutti P.Sanal Mohan T.E.Forster T.Wykes A.Motrescu-Mayes L.Hamilton A.Hooley P.Liò J.F.Calderod C.A.Short L.Tantardini I.C.Strachan D.J.Ibbetson I.S.Black R.Ackerman G.T.G.Byne A.Barclay J.Cama D.Jolowicz M.Janson P.E.Quint S.Kostas A.Goldstein

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The Colleges

Corpus Christi College

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eing an effective meme vehicle, I jumped at the chance to write a few words for the Yearbook.

What better outlet for my passion for cliché?

Tasked with writing a piece relevant to as many graduands as possible, it’s hard not to be generic. So I won’t try.

When we arrived at Corpus we felt lots of emotions, including, but not limited to: apprehension, nervousness, and excitement. Now we’re leaving, we feel emotions too, mostly the same as those above, but with the possible addition of nostalgia.

It doesn’t seem long ago that Memebridge deemed us ‘chuffing [sic] irrelevant’. Blimey, did we show them!

Well, no, not really. But that’s all right.

There’s a certain poetry in sitting on the bench, keeping our nails tidy, waiting for the spotlight. We trundle along until the next time a Corpuscle dares to have another human stay overnight.

It would be remiss, I think, not to mention a few events that a bunch of us were together for. There was the Freshers’ Play, but the less said about that the better.

The garden parties, which taught us to enjoy May Week without spending £140.

The May Ball, which taught us to enjoy May Week by spending £140.

Halfway Hall was perhaps the most recent time we were all forced into the same room. I still remember with fondness Jacob characteristically muscling his way onto the group organising the Awards.

(Come to think of it, most of my memories of Jacob involve muscling in, one way or another.) I can’t have been the only person surprised by the number of people around the room I didn’t recognise. I resolved to change that, but here I am, 18 months later, none the wiser.

We have the singular privilege of graduating alongside Stuart and Sibella,

whose approval ratings have always been through the roof. I know that many of us are grateful for their active role in College life, not least because they are so generous with their time, so welcoming in their home, and their dog, Jack, is so naïvely wholesome.

We’ve seen and made changes that will affect Corpuscles for years to come.

The LGBT+ flag was raised year on year.

All members of College now have access to free sanitary supplies. A new rite of passage was created: walking through a locked Bene’t Passage using only the rotating artefact known as an A20.

Corpus is a unique and special place.

We’re the only College with the enterprise to slap a great big gold grasshopper on display (courtesy of our boy Dr John C Taylor OBE). The only College with a dedicated busker. The only College with a vulning pelican for an origin story. The only College with Graham Pink as gatekeeper.

It’s impossible to give justice to everybody’s varied experience in a margin this small, with a pen wielded by a man with perhaps the most limited world experience imaginable, so I sign off here.

Marina’s baby chicks have finally hatched, ready to flee the nest. It’s time to do her proud.

Jack Hodkinson

Lafayette Photography

I.L.Allard R.C.Allez M.W.Allingham Y.X. Ang P.Artemov L.R.S Baldwin A.C.Barnett R.Bayliss Hawitt J.R. Bradley E.J. Brassett F.N.Briscoe B.D.Brookes E.M. Bullock K.L.Burns C.E. Butcher C.M.Canavan C.C.Chai C.H.L.Chang M.N.Chowdhury S.R.Collings-Wells C.A.Cosgrove S.Crawshaw A.Dasgupta T.J.Davidson S.P.S.P Deutsch T.R.Else J.Foley H.A.Fookes B.G.Forder J.R.G.French C.Y.Goh L.K.Greenslade N.M.C Guillemin A.D. Gunasekera M.Gupta T.Ha S.B.Hassan E.E.Hennessey S.S.J.Hewavidana P.A.Higgs J.R.Hodkinson M.R.Homfray-Cooper L.A.Hutton E.C.Jackson G.Jafari C.M.Johnston H.T.Jones S.F.Kiflie H.M.Lam N.E.Law J.D.Lawton L.Li J.A.Lidiard-Phillips R.M.Locke T.W.Lopez E.R.M.Lubel J.J.Lucyszyn A.Mahgerefteh E.E.McCormick S.J.McKenzie E.D.G.Merson S.J.Moon A.Millington M.G.Morrison D.J.Nunn E.K-B.O’Keeffe A.Patenge A.J.Peck G.F.Pliotis P.B.B.Price J.Qiu E.S.Rastorgueva F.H.T.Raymond S.J.R.Richards A.P.D.Russell S.W.Z.Scrivener H.E.E.Sellen E.G.Spicer L.A.Spirit M.C.Stacey T.A.Sukthankar R.S.T-K.Swan B.J.Thoma D.M.Thompson Dr M.Frasca-Spada Mr S Laing L.H.Thorn I.I.Tuca D.E.M.Tyrer J.J.Wakeling M.H.Watling-Read M.A.Widdess H.C.Wong K.Wong

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The Colleges

Darwin College

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very year, students are welcomed into Cambridge’s graduate College of choice with two weeks of events and a lot of free food! The highlight of Freshers’ week(s) is the bop, which this year featured one of our talented student bands, our regular favourite DJ, and dancing chaos with ceilidh and salsa.

The Salsa Society has been growing in popularity recently, and not only is it becoming one of the great things that Darwin is known for, but it is also the reason why we no longer hate Mondays.

Well, that and Darbar’s ‘Recession Sessions’.

Darbar celebrated its 50th anniversary and Barcomm proved once more that they love us by distributing an overwhelming amount of delicious cake. Darbar is truly the heart of our community as it becomes everyone’s living room; a place for board games, piano-playing, sing-alongs, danceoffs and philosophical conversations.

This is where you will have met many friends you have made for life; where you got those heartfelt hugs you sorely needed; and where you celebrated your hard-fought academic achievements. It’s not surprising we showed the bar some affection as it acquires some new furniture — we love you back Barcomm!

Another in-house team we love is Darwin Kitchens. They prepare delicious meals and are experts at turning scepticism for things like chicken waffles into love at first bite. Darwin formals raise the bar even higher; if you’ve taken any steps towards completing Cambridge’s formal challenge, you will know there’s no place like home.

Darwin students can also cook and they prove it, organising a yearly food festival that celebrates cultural exchange and gives us a taste of the diversity in our community, with members from more than

70 countries. Many of us don’t go home often, so in this College you are never alone during festivities — from Christmas dinner, to New Year’s Eve parties to Easter egg hunts — there are always plenty of us to celebrate with!

This has been a unique year at Darwin, and certainly a time of many firsts, some sweeter than others. Our community was enthusiastic about the installation of beehives on the second island, which will soon result in the production of Darwin Honey.

We hosted themed dinners for the first time: from a 1920s murder mystery with some Oscar-worthy performances to a Superheroes vs Supervillains intellectual smack-down featuring colourful capes and spandex costumes.

Darwin’s fleet’s newest addition, Iguana, replaces the retiring Galapagos in this year’s punt race, which is bound to be one of the most comical events you will have witnessed in Cambridge!

The most exciting first will undoubtedly be our joint May Ball with St Edmund’s, an event double the usual size, which saw tickets sold in a record time.

The yearly swap with our sister College in Oxford saw Darwin students compete with their Wolfson counterparts for a trophy. While unsuccessful, we learned our forté lies in trivia and bar games.

Our egos remain unscathed as we have plenty of sporting achievements, from intercollegiate table tennis champions to representation in both the Men’s and Women’s Lightweight Boat Race and coxing Blondie!

But the most important thing isn’t the prize; it’s the journey. Whether you are at the end of a one-year epic saga (Masters) or an intense trilogy (PhD), you will fondly remember the special moments you shared with your friends at Darwin!

Luis Nobre

2017 MATRICULATION/Lafayette Photography

M.L.Westwater I.U.Awah L.Xu C.Kattar I.Madella M.Gkovedarou Z.Öztürk B.Zavadilova L.Tinghan M.Sun K.Zhang A.V.Grigor A.L.Forringer-Beal R.E.A.Bennett E.Izquierdo-Acebes M.Alvites E.T.Sandler J.M.J.Rees E.Hoover N.Z.A.Teo Y.Z.Zhang E.S.J.Tan M.Galez C.E.L.Schelling A.S.Gauvin Y.Xue S.Zhou M.A.Emms A.I.A.Wainer T.Wang C.J.Day F.Kipps Y.T.Chan Y.Liu R.A.Wible K.O.Cohen J.N.Rose-Miller M.Coleman D.Constable C.Y.Lao A.Hobourn J.L.Lysons C.Al Hage E.Navarro A.Y.Li A.Fairnie J.S.Fear Y.Taira E.A.Seger A.M.Pasierbek S.A.F.Billings S.Stockton M.A.Almarri A.Belikov T.Kubo Y.Wang L.Rodríguez K.O.Skytén A.Asim A.Aldubush J.Jo M.-Y.Strucker Z.Xu G.Soavi H.F.P.Runge A.Ahmad S.Sharma C.A.Murray M.J.Habas S.Marciano E.A.Schweizer O.D.Olafuyi M.Belmonte K.Markel G.Mulley M.Whitfield X.Zhang A.M.Pereira de Souza A.C.Bennett R.R.Salih C.G.Thomas L.Skingle G.Villias M.Mahjoub A.C.Tuohy A.J.Kaula E.W.O’Keeffe A.Montelli B.K.Tapley A.Das A Qazilbash A.R.Barker A.L.Bjornson V.Walsh E.T.Romero L.L.R.Bird D.M.Holland E.E.M.Carter P.C.Kennedy A.Monaco-Tschan O.L.A.Kent-Egan J.A.Wain J.E.H.Fleet J.R.Mellors A.J.Wijaya M.P.Brady S.A.Khan E.I.Butler B.Geytenbeek T.Geller M.M.Knighton J.Golfinos H.Li J.Helmer C.Austin A.Giarre T.Sell L.M.Honegger K.C.Foster J.I.Ibrahim J.Cowley A.Wong G.Los S.N.T.Amos A.R.Gubbay T.Strelecek W.Lutz P.J.Zurek L.Grimm A.Bellotti S.MacPherson M.C.Hardenberg A.K.Zonneveld G.L.Devereux Y.P.Rabiah O.K.Zubair A.D.Martin I.J.Wicks T.S.Sikkenk S.Zaher P.R.Cheo S.K.Hung W.Y.C.Lau M.Sgroi C.Singh E.J.Ward S.G.Ottewill-Soulsby D.Duncan L.E.Marbella A.Sarkar S.Venn D.Weiss C.Sandbrook T.Krude J.T.Dix C.M.R.Fowler D.J.Needham M.S.Edwards T.N.Milner J.M.Dittmar J.F.W.Weitzdoerfer L.W.Sherman M.Abdelrahman J.Evans R.J.P.Reuvers G.Barsuola A.O.Scally

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The Colleges

Downing College

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s unimposing as it seems (especially from Regent Street), Downing is a magnificent place to study and live. We arrived in 2015 with little knowledge of what lay beyond the Kenny Buildings – but a few weeks in and the size the College, with all its hidden gardens and buildings, became apparent.

Now we moan about having to cross the paddock to collect our things from a recently revolutionised post room (but only before 4.45pm).

We’ve had our fair share of firsts (well done to Economics and Engineering especially!). But there is much more to our year than academic success. We have been influential in many College policies – from how our ‘Kitchen Fixed Charge’ is assessed to a burgeoning ‘cut the rent’ campaign (sorry, Senior Bursar). It has not all been in opposition to College – we have been lucky enough to have a team of academics and support staff that has pushed for change alongside us. We have greatly appreciated the help of Dr Figueroa, Dr Tomalin, Dr Yunus and Dr Williams; from pushing through the University’s sexual assault policy to devoting hours assessing admissions statistics to best attract stateschool students, they have promoted the best interests of Downing’s student population as a whole. We would not have been able to function as well as we have without our amazing college porters who are always there for a chat or in lockedout-of-my-room emergencies.

The College is always looking for new ways to enrich student life – and our year has benefited greatly from perks like the Howard Theatre and the Heong Gallery; both give Downing a cultural richness not found elsewhere (and some employment for those so inclined!). Downing has a diverse year of students from a range of different backgrounds. We have had

some active BME officers during our time who have effectively promoted the needs of ethnic minority students in College and beyond, and our LGBT+ officers have created a social space in College for identifying students. Downing is renowned for its sporting achievements and our year group has continued this trend.

Congratulations to all those who have achieved blues and half-blues over the past three years.

Thank you to last year’s Downing May Ball committee who made our first (and only) College Ball a spectacular event to rival all others. From the launch party to the main event and everything in between, its organisation, build-up and execution lived up to expectation. It was an excellent end to exam term and will remain a fond memory for all.

Our year group has not been without its scandals (which have mostly ended up in University news), but we have nearly made it through our three years here. To those staying on, enjoy. To those joining Downing in 2018, the next three years will pass faster than you could possibly imagine! Our time here has laid the foundation for our future careers and life paths, and I hope I speak for all of us when we say it has been a truly eye-opening experience. Whatever the future may hold, I have no doubt we will all go on to fulfil our passions, remembering the time we shared and the relationships we made at Downing from October 2015 to June 2018.

Sofiya Gatens

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R-H.Zingel A.K.Zaw C.H.T.Yip A.X.Ying Y.Yin J.C.Wright C.L.Woods S.Wisgrill M.Wilson C.Williams P.Wernham A.Weir B.J.Watson J.Watkins J.Warne Z.Wang Z.Wang R.J.L.Voo M.J.Turner S.Turner E.Truan Aguirre N.Thomas E.Taylor-Hearn K.K.M.Tam S.A.Tailor D.Sutcliffe H.E.Sparkes A.Sinha J.Shea O.Shahzad P.D.Scharrer R.Schaffer J.Rossi M.I.Ross K.M.Robinson T.Reynard T.Redko A.Rashid A.N.Rajah C.Pitsillidou S.Petterson J.S.B.Parrott S.W.T.Pang J.Olivey L.I.Oldham J.Okwuonu F.J.O’Dowd J.E.O’Connor L.D.North J.H.Nel W.J.Mullins S.Moumtzis B.B.Motlhanka J.M.Moore J.Moloney M.Mohamed B.J.L.Moakes A.R.Mellings F.McKee G.A.McCoig A.McCaul A.Martin G.M.Marsh Y.M.Mano A.Malter P.M.Lotts K.K.L.Leung W.H.E.Lau C.M.Lam S.Koutsioumpas S.E.Kitching A.Khagram E.C.Kemsley-Pein N.Kadiyala A.Joshi G.Joseph S.Jang V.E.Jacobi H.Jackson K.E.Inglis M.S.W.Huppatz S.Humbert E.M.Hopper A.Hollsborough D.E.E.Herzberg S.Harris A.E.Harper T.Hardy N.A.E.E.Hanna N.E.Hall M.L.S.Haertel M.C.Grierson A.J.M.Goodworth D.Mahony J.Gill D.C.Gentle S.Gatens X.Gao M.French G.Frater S.E.Fallen A.Ezzerg J.A.Evans A.Demetriades C.M.Davis R.L.Cummings M.D.Cryer L.J.Crang J.B.T.Cooper J.D.Collins J.C-S.Chu A.W.L.Chong B.Chen A.Chen K.J.Chaudhry S.P.Charlwood T.D’Angelico P.Chappell S.Chandrasekaran W.J.Byrd L.D.Buckley J.Bragg B.Boucher G.C.Billings V.Bessis J.Carr M.Bhasin Dr.P. Millett Prof.G. Grimmett Dr.G.Williams Rev’d Dr.K. Eyeons S.J.R.Bennett M.A.Belcher L.B.Baxter A.R.Bartlett H.Baron K.Azvine B.C.J.Appleton M.I.Allana M.F.Adams

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Emmanuel College

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he 2015 gang of Emmanuel freshers, drawn from every corner of the globe and every corner of the United Kingdom (yes, even Northern Ireland, Sorcha), descended on Emma like a flock of Canadian geese, destined to make Emmanuel their own.

It began with a cracking freshers week, and a pub quiz that was too long and too loud – so long and so loud we decided to repeat it for next year’s freshers! By this point, Tom George had already thrust himself on the social scene, and Adam Mirsky reminded us all about the presence of the bar: Bar? First year ended with an idyllic June Event – a triumphant success, despite the universal whining about vacating rooms.

Don’t worry, most of us found a place to unload our alcohol: the nearby Hilton.

Eureka! seemed too little too late, given exams had just ended for economists the day before. Although they’re quick to tell us (especially Daniel Yao), that those exams went smashingly.

We started second year by welcoming our innocent first years, led by four vivacious freshers’ reps, including the irrepressible Molly Biddell – instant BNOC. Another one even managed to find true love in the outgoing ECSU President. Jacob dated up.

Our year continued its success by cheering on the incomparable Leah Ward, as she represented us admirably in University Challenge. We weren’t finished yet. The 2017 team wiped the floor with the other years, as Kitty Chevalier, Alex Mistlin, James Fraser and Ed Derby battled our Oxford enemies and some minor mortals for the coveted title of nerdiest place to be in the United Kingdom. We were not successful, though James Fraser got to say his name on live television, and Alex looked like Tuvok. This year’s team was also filled with the class of 2018, although for legal

reasons they shall remain nameless.

Emma then demonstrated its progressive credentials by becoming the first college to fly the pride flag all of February. February nights were made a little bit brighter thanks to the effervescent lights show.

Lydia Sefton-Minns bossed the shop, and Dave Thorp finally fixed the table tennis room. Ben Lammin is a tech wizard supreme. Connor made a splash with his emails, although not always in a good way.

Tom George had the best set, even if it was in Blantyre.

The year ended with our first May Ball, although no one could quite work out why a lobster was at the Exhibition. George Herring’s music choices were both esoteric and enticing – exactly what one would expect from the Dixie Scholar. The ticketing system worked too, although Tamisha took way too much grief. Her linguist mind was probably thinking a lot about the etymology of swear words.

Third year has been a blast. Many look back on the our ECSU committee, longing for the days when the most controversial item was the management of the Facebook page. MMLers fled the scene, although Amy Cragg, Frankie Tamblyn, Freya Lawson and Kitty Chevallier have all been back to remind us how great a time they’re having. Exam term has arrived, but that hasn’t stopped Tom George and Will Dorrell ripping each other in the ‘Best Set’ competition. When do we tell them that no one cares?

We are leaving this year, ready to Twist and Shout, and fly the nest; the Canadian geese have even started chasing us around the paddock. The ducks are much nicer.

As our time draws to a close – only one question remains. Will Roar ever be the same?

Stay tuned Emmanuellites. Stay tuned.

See you at MA Dinner.

Connor MacDonald & Tom George

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A.W.Abbot T.Acharya S.S.Achawal A.Adebajo H.Almond G.Apostoli M.Armishaw A.Baker J.Banasik A.S.Benford T.J.Bevan M.Biddell A.Blanchard A.S.Broadway S.M.Burke E.Caroe A.Chadha H.Chen C.M.B.Chevallier J.Y.Cho S.Chowdry F.F.Clarke R.T.Cochrane H.J.Conder K.Cook A.Cooke A.Crabb A.Cragg H.Crook D.J.Cugini J.Davies J.P.Davies A.N.Deo E.A.C.Derby S.Dhawan C.Diaconu W.Dorrell R.J.Dyer P.Elmer A.Emsley C.Enright J.Fraser J.Ganis T.Garry D.Gayne T.George M.Graydon P-E.Grimm O.Grimmette M.Gurtler J.Haddad W.R.S.Hall R.Hanrahan B.J.R.Harris S.E.P.Harrison G.W.P.Herring V.W.Q.Ho D.Jacobson E.Jenkinson A.Joshi T.Johnson D.Kazhdan L.I.Keijer-Palau J.A.Kershaw D.H.W.Kim H.C.Klyne K.Kubala F.Laing E.Lamar B.Lammin T.Lane A.Lawrence F.H.L.S.Lawson O.Leanse S.J.Leonard S.Li C.H.B.Lo C.G.G.MacDonald C.G.B.Manchester E.Mann A.McGiff C.J.McKay I.McLennan J.McMinn M.Menshova A.Mirsky A.Mistlin D.N.Monteiro C.Morgan D.P.Moss P.G.Nagappan E.Nevill E.L.Nicholls C.O’Malley B.O’Neill S.E.Oakley J.Oliver E.Palmer J.S.Panesar A.Patel R.G.Peacock E.L.Phelps G.Pimlott A.Power W.Raby-Smith M.Raveendran C.Restarick E.Robb S.L.Rock T.Roe N.Ryle J.H.Scott I.K.Sealey L.Sefton-Minns A.Sharp W.Shaw T.A.H.Sherwood E.P.Sides D.V.Stafford M.S.Storer N.H.Sturrock H.M.Stylianou F.C.Tamblyn T.L. Tan Ming Hui S.Y.Tan Z.K.Tan J.Tao A.Thavanesan D.Thorp M.A.Toth C.H.Tucker C.Wallace B.Wang A.Ward L.M.A.Ward P.Warren F.Waters Mr.D.Glover Dame.F.Reynolds Dr.R.Henderson Rev.J.Caddick H.E.White N.Wilson A.Wineman M.K.Y.Wong J.Wood K.J.Y.Wu J.Yang D.Y.Yao S.I.Yu F.Zaki

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Fitzwilliam College

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rriving as shiny freshers in the autumn of 2015, we became the newest cohort in Fitzwilliam’s long tradition of ex antiquis et novissimis optima. Greeted by a flurry of friendly-faced students and porters, it didn’t take long for us to wave goodbye to our parents and settle into our corridors, the luckiest among us enjoying the newly renovated A Staircase. After awkwardly encountering and exchanging name, subject and home town with every stranger we met, our time in Cambridge began in earnest. With the bop, house party and Fitz Up providing the traditional freshers’ revelry, the week was rounded off by exploring Cambridge and, of course, the extravagant Matriculation Dinner.

We soon settled into a routine of attending/sleeping through/missing [delete as appropriate] 9am lectures, labs and weekly essay crises, as we learned to juggle the manic Cambridge timetable with countless society and sporting events.

Formal hall became a regular fixture to celebrate birthdays and special occasions, and Superhalls marked a number of important events through the year: from singing the 12 Days at Fitzmas to getting hitched at the marriage formal.

The 2016 Winter Ball indicated the half way point for many of us, framing Fitz as the backdrop for the murder mystery themed evening, complete with poker den in the Grove and Waltzer on the Lawn. The year quickly rolled around to the housing ballot, Halfway Hall, and exam season. Our revision motivation was truly tested by the marauding peacock, dubbed Nicky Pea, when its entrapment by N Staircase led to a standoff with Paul the porter and a smashed window.

It has been great to see the many ways in which students gave back to Fitz and the wider Cambridge community. Be it through sitting on committees, volunteering, or

participating in sports, the Fitz spirit shines brightly. Our University Challenge team represented us on the national stage, smashing through to the quarterfinals and showing off Billy the wicker kid. On the pitches, Fitz won the Football and Cricket Cuppers two years running, reached all three Hockey Cuppers finals, and was within touching distance of the Rugby and Netball Cuppers. Fitz Winter Wonderland showcased the best of our community spirit, bringing everyone together to celebrate the festive season. (These will have been the highlights for many, though for others it was probably the pool table in the JCR!) Fitz is not just the combination of spectacular gardens and striking buildings (like the Olisa, which we proudly claim is the highest point in Cambridge); it’s so much more. Fitz is a thriving, bubbling community of students, staff and fellows, who all work hard to make it the best it can be: from our incredible librarian, Chris, the hero of Easter term with her 3:45pm squash and biscuit retreats from revision, to our Chaplain, Helen, who has supported many of us through her infectious warmth around college and her crochet-and-cake sessions.

Perhaps the most memorable may be our exceptional Master, Nicky Padfield, and her husband Christopher, whose pancakes were a welcome first-year treat and whose passion for Fitz we will recall fondly in our reunions decades down the line.

At this point I have to say goodbye. It won’t be for long, I’m sure. We’ll see each other and Fitz soon enough, as we come back for the next Winter Ball, a Reunion Weekend, or just to visit the place we hold so close to our hearts. I wish you the best of luck in your long and varied careers to come. To Cambridge, Fitz may always be the college far away on the top of the hill, but to us it was home.

Carl Martin

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T.Ahluwalia A.S.Alcock K.Atputharajah B.W.Bambrough Stimson C.Bandeen T.Bardsley S.Begum Y.Bernstein L.Blanco Atrio S.C.N.Blount J.M.Brice L.D.Brierly E.L.Brown K.Bryden A.K.Cardiff D.Y.I.Carter E.Y.T.Chan S.Chowdhury H.J.Clifford I.Cocker M.Cook T.Corner C.Coventon M.J.Croft N.M.Curran T.Curtis M.R.Dicks E.M.Duncan S.P.Dunstan L.Dyer B.Edwards G.Elorreaga D.L.Emery S.Evans X.M.Fan D.Fargie J.Fenton S.Fitoussi K.E.Gargan J.A.A.Gasson H.F.S.Gatward K.R.Gaunt J.Gilbert M.Green J.Gregory H.L.Grimes F.M.Guy E.C.Hawes D.D.X.He T.Hill G.Horvath T.Howe M.Y.Hui D.S.Jefferies C.H.T.Jonas H.S.Kalsi S.Khatun K.H.W.Kim E.P.Knight D.L.Koren O.Kozhanov B.Kwok Y.L.Lee E-L.A.Lee-Hoareau A.Leszek J.Levene B.Lim Y.Liu O.Longstaff X.Ma J.C.Marchant C.Martin T.Matthews K.I.McCoshan F.McKay J.D.Miller R.L.Miller H.B.M.Moir E.I.Morgan M.Moullet J.Mullan Lipman T.Mumby R.K.Nag K.Naydenov E.T.Osborne T.Pathmaraja C.J.Pearch T.D.Phillips N.Pick B.Platt A.Prasad G.Prosser E.F.Radford F.I.Reed K.Reshetov D.Riches H.Robb G.A.G.Roberts A.Rottenberg B.Rouchon M.Rowe G.Salmon G.Sato-Holt S.S.Sinclair A.B.Sommers N.Sornet R.R.Stackhouse J.Stoddart J.C.Stone H.O.Stovin-Bradford M.G.Swiers I.S.Szabo M-U.Taahir L.E.W.L.Tan P.C.Tan H.O.Taylor O.B.Taylor J.S.Thandi V.Themelis C.H.Thye T.F.F.Tindall R.K.Tomlinson A.Tsou R.K.Uppal D.T.M.Walsh A.I.White P.J.L.Winch N.Yalamarthi S.Yang J.D.Ye Z.L.Ye E.V.Young N.Zheng H.Bettinson A.M.Cicale A.M.Milne M.B.Wingate J.Eisold S.Owen R.Abayasekara H.C.Canuto P.A.Chirico N.M.Padfield R.A.Powell S.Holly J.A.Elliott H.A.Chalmers K.Parton M.Iacovou A.Televantos H.Arnold R.Zmigrod

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he Girtonians graduating in June 2018 have probably experienced the biggest changes at Girton College since the admission of male students, back in 1978. Who knew that when we arrived for Freshers’ Week, with the obligatory cycle training and preparations for the inevitable distance jokes, our generation would witness such striking changes in the Girton estate. Brand-new accommodation at Swirles Court in the North West Cambridge site has replaced our beloved Wolfie, and the bar has, by popular demand, become a building site in preparation for the new “Social Hub”. Yet, even in the wake of all these changes, the one constant has been that Girton has kept its tremendous sense of community.

We’ve taken a variety of paths through Girton. Be up at 6am and you might find boaties making the trek to the boathouse, which on a cold Tuesday morning seems to be as far away from Girton as humanly possible. Sit by the gates at 8.50am and you’ll find the overconfident (read: late) rushing to lectures. On the weekends, Girton’s immaculate pitches are full of sport, and GADS continued to provide light-hearted humour with its plays and musicals, even hosting its own smoker.

Yet, it is this diversity that has brought our generation its strength. Girton’s progressive tradition, with its commitment to widening participation, has brought together a generation of Girtonians who have celebrated each other’s triumphs, and who have been there for each other in the difficult times.

The achievements of this graduating year are many. Just last year we had the joy of the Girton Spring Ball 2018, with the steampunk-infused theme of ‘Mortal Engines’ making full use of Girton’s gorgeous architecture. Many of the committee are graduating this year and

have rightly left their mark on the College.

Girton’s sporting credentials grow ever stronger, winning Skiing Cuppers, reaching the finals of Football Cuppers and the semi-final of Rugby Cuppers. The work of the JCR and MCR Committees continues to show the community at Girton.

When establishing Girton College, then known as the College for Women, Emily Davies knew there was more to Cambridge than essay crises, impending deadlines, and wondering if you’ll have to cycle all the way to the UL to get that book. Davies recognised that students needed ‘a certain amount of solitude’, but opposed ‘undue isolation’. The collegiate experience Davies desired was one to create lifelong friends and a community, which she termed ‘congenial companionship’. Writing this at the start of Easter Term, we have the College Feast to look forward to. The return of two former Mistresses of Girton and the Visitor, Baroness Hale, at the Feast, keep this continued promise of congenial companionship, as we mark the 70th anniversary of the awarding of degrees to women by Cambridge University. It’s been an honour to be with you all. Happy graduation.

Blaise Sadler

Jet Photographic

N.Ahmed L.Alexander D.Allum-Gruselle E.J.Armitage B.Arshad P.Ashweed E.Barnard R.Barnard C.Basu E.L.Bedborough J.T.Bojdol N.D.Borchgrevink N.Bottomley J.Bowskill R.Britten H.Brown H.Candy T.Carter J.D.Catto I.Cernyte G.Chandrakumar Z.H.Charfare S.Christopher M.Y.Chua A.Ciurea R.Court A.Croft M.Damian J.N.Dane A.J.Davies L.Dawson-Riley M.T.Dayao T.Deingruber A.L.Disney-Hogg T.Duff R.Dunn E.K.Dunn D.R.Edwards A.C.Eldridge A.E.Elgar A.Epstein V.O.Ergisi H.Evans J.H.Fiber J.E.M.Foster H.W.Gale R.Gatta A.R.Gildea B.M.A.Gille A.W.Haig S.J.C.Hailes T.J.Hancock M.M.Hankin C.R.Hedges D.M.Helsper A.R.Hernandez L.Hillier S.Horton M.Inglessis M.Isaacs R.Jamieson R.C.Jenkinson G.W.Jones C.Jones M.A.Kekwick S.A.Kellett O.J.Klein G.V.Komen H.Kwan F.R.P.Laidlaw D.Li K.Li J.X.Lim J.Lister J.D.D.Long W.Ma B.Mahen R.Manchandra K.Matulenaite T.McArthur L.Mereb J.A.L.Meredith D.Z.A.Mieloszyk C.L.Milbank T.A.Millward A.Montero Horas W.Moorfoot L.G.Morrell J.C.Nason C.H.Ng E.V.Pace J.D.Parkin K.A.Patel J.E.Pieri A.K.J.Pritchard L.M.Pujos A.E.Quincey A.Rai V.Ravi K.E.Read J.G.Reynolds K.A.Romain H.M.Rudner H.Ryder B.W.Sadler S.Sadler M.M.C.Schimel F.R.Schlicke J.L.Shelley M.Y.Shen R.Shoshi P.Slekys T.Smith M.A.Spielberg L.Stead M.Strachan A.Strumpel A.M.Swinton M.A.Taliadoros X.S.Tan W.F.Tang K.Taylor H.Tetteh A.Thayyil C.Tien W.Trinkwon O.Turnbull G.Turner J.D.Slater S.J.Smith A.M.Fulton T.Uden E.Vacani B.van Straaten R.Vrahimis S.Vykuntam D.Weir M.Winter C.W.Xia

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Gonville & Caius College

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hursday 28 June 2018 will mark nine hundred and ninety-nine days since our matriculation at Caius. Nine hundred and ninety-nine days since we were unceremoniously awakened by the GCSU to walk, bleary-eyed, to the Lower Library to sign the book that would make us Caians for life. Nine hundred and ninetynine days since the picture in front of the Gate of Honour, now hanging above many a mantelpiece in the homes of our families across the world, was taken.

The trees lining the path between the Gates of Humility and Virtue have seen a lot in those nine hundred and ninety-nine days. They have seen us flock to hall clad in velvet-trimmed blue gowns, fingers crossed that gunpowder fries might make a surprise appearance. They have also seen us running past them, five minutes late for a supervision with essays in our hands and our hearts in our mouths. They transformed into an electric wonderland for our first May Ball, Praeternaturalia, and felt the cold of the snow in the winter of our third year. As the seasons changed, so did we, and no one knows that better than the trees (except, perhaps, the porters).

In nine hundred and ninety-nine days, we have found friends here whom we will cherish for life. Coming out of the other side of a degree at the University of Cambridge has been no mean feat, with many late nights and early mornings spent poring over textbooks and immersing ourselves in our learning. Our friendships are what have made our time at Caius so special, carrying us from black-tie dinners to essay crises to endless reading lists and problem sheets all in the space of a week – eight times over. Be it through sport, theatre, politics, cinema, or a mutual appreciation of Riccardo’s metamorphosis of Caius dining, we have formed friendships here that will last us a lifetime.

Going forward, I know we will all miss the way that Tree Court looks in the sunshine, the friendly smiles of our porters, the social atmosphere of hall and the comfortable familiarity of being a part of the Caius community. Despite the hard work and often consuming stress that we have all survived to make it to graduation, I know that we will find it easy to remember instead the laughter, the people, and the beauty in the madness.

Our time at Gonville and Caius has been, and always will be, one of the most unique and wonderful times of our lives.

Bronte Cullum

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S.Abdul Azim E.Adair A.Aflalo J.R.Anderton R.Andrew T.R.Ashcroft T.B.Ashworth P.R.Aste A.L.Barkemeyer N.Bashir J.Bell K.Bilimoria P.Binns C.M.Bisutti A.C.Boardman A.Boruta A.Bowkis J.P.Bowler I.Branch T.E.Brian A.Bruce-Jones I.Buckley P.J.E.Bull A.Caine M.J.Carmona Hollands G.Casale T.J.Challender Z.T-Y.Chan Y.Y.C.Chan Y.Y.Cheng J-K.Cheung A.Cheung M.Clapp C.Clare H.L.Close M.Colocassides M.T.C.Coote T.J.Costello B.M.Cullum K.Curran S.Daniel A.P.Davis A.C.de Maille S.D.Delaney J.Delaney Z.E.Diepstraten G.P.K.Drew S.Edwards A.E.M.Edwards-Knight V.M.Elms H.Faull A.P.L.Fleming R.Fox M.Fricke E.C.Frohlick M.S.T.Fynn G.Gathercole J.Goettel O.Goodey H.Goold T.S.Goulding P.W.Graney A.E.Halls G.H.Hao S.Henderson E.M.F.Henderson-Child J.D.Hill N.J.Holloway S.J.Houghton M.J.How T.E.A.Howard X.Huang T.J.M.Hui L.M.Inman-Meron D.Jacques H.J.Jenkins K.D.Johns S.Jones J.Joykutty I.Kaeda H.Kaya N.Kelly M.M.Kennedy S.A.Khan E.J.Kirwan J.Kochan G.Koumis A.Kulkarni T.Kumar G.Kumar C.S.W.Kwan C.D.Lai M.Leibowitz E.Lenton M.Lewis Z.Lim M.A.Lofchy R.T.S.Loh J.Lomax E.D.Lunn E.Marwaha D.M.Maskill M.J.Mathews E.J.Maton R.McCorkell R.Melling J.Mens H.J.Mitson I.A.Mor E.K.Morgan E.F.Morris D.B.Muhammad Syafiq E.H.Myles R.R.Nash E.J.Nash O.Neuner D.V.A.Nguyen M.A.Noble M.O’Brien H.F.O’Donohue F.Parker S.C.Parkinson K.Pau S.R.Pearson I-M.Posa L.E.Price S.K.Rajani V. Ramesh S.I.Rasul G.W.Robinson R.Rogojinaru G.M.Rouault H.Samudrala T.J.Selden J.Shah C.A.Silver A.H.Y.Sim A.C.L.Sinclair S.Singhal T.A.C.Slade H.R.Sleath O.Smith E.T.Sorrell C.Sparkes T.C.R.Stanford N.M.Steuer H.E.Tasker G.Tatton J.Thomson N.M.S.Tonkin Wells V.R.Tray E.E.Tremble T.Ulcar Pertot O.Uwais P.Virani D.A.Voice B.V.A.Vyas V.Y.F.Walker R.Walker M.W.L.Wan A.R.J.Ward-Booth J.P.Webb Dr.D.M.Holburn Prof.Sir.A.Fersht A.C.Webster S.C.P.Williams D.V.Wilmot E.Wilson H.L.Wynton Z.Xiong C.Yuan E.D.Zacharis S.Zhao J.Zhou M.A.Zia

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rocessing down King’s Parade in your gown and hood at Graduation, you know, your family knows, and every tourist on the street now knows that you are Cambridge. Gone are the days of toast-induced West House fire alarms; gone are the days of essay crises keeping you in the library until your friends get back from Cindies; gone, sadly, are the days of Xenel keeping your exam-term caffeine addiction at bay.

But none of those things lost could ever surmount those gained during your years spent at Homerton. Those fire alarms taught you how to cook for yourself without creating 200 cold, angry neighbours; the supervisions that followed those essay crises gave you an insight to knowledge and wisdom one can only gain from the world-class academics we have here at Cambridge; and, of course, Xenel showed us all the true meaning of compassion, optimism and resilience.

As a community, we have shared the highs and the lows; the bops and the mornings after; the still water and the sparkling. No matter how you look at it, Homerton – much like our beloved sculpture – is a unity of interlocking components coming together to make a whole. Nothing demonstrates this more than the infamous platform for anonymous declarations of love to which we have all grown addicted. From angry library-goers unleashing their fury at loud whisperers to genuine adulation of our most prized seasonal residents – the ducklings – Homerton Confessions has united us in our effort to make Homerton the very best place we are all honoured to call our home.

Every single one of you should look back on your time here and feel immensely proud of everything you have achieved both personally and as part of a community. Homerton Jazz Orchestra has

grown significantly in size and became a staple for post-formal festivities. Homerton College Boat Club managed to set a new world record for the longest continuous row whilst studying for exams at the same time. Not to mention that two Homertonians were named in a list of 100 high-achieving women at UK universities in 2017! All of these achievements and more should be recognised and celebrated, today especially, as you glide flawlessly (or at least without tripping) into the Senate House to collect your hard-earned and very much deserved degree certificates.

However, I urge you to think not of this day as the finem you have always been told to respice; instead it is an opportunity to add a new element to this chapter of your life. For at Homerton, the finem does not, in fact, exist. Many of you will be leaving Cambridge after today, but we’ll be waiting with open arms to welcome you at the Leavers’ Dinner next year. What’s more, the impression Homerton has made on you will never fade, for it is here that you have learnt the skills and knowledge necessary for the lives you have ahead of you.

Homerton has moulded us into the people we are by encouraging our development in every aspect of life. In this way, Homerton will never leave you, even when you leave Homerton. As our esteemed Principal told us upon matriculating here: ‘once a Homertonian, always a Homertonian’.

I invite you all now to take a moment to think about everything that has happened to you over the past few years which has led you to this moment. You have all made it to this, the pinnacle of your Cambridge career, holding that degree certificate in your hands: of this you should feel extremely proud.

Miranda Hewkin Smith

Lafayette Photography

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Hughes Hall

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ongratulations on completing your degrees.

Everyone’s route through Hughes has been different: some of you only entered the gates for the first time 10 months ago, while others have been part of the college for four or five years. However long you have been here, you are one of the ‘Humans of Hughes’ who make it such an excellent college. It is hugely diverse and international, with students from 116 nations at one point or another, as now represented by the number of marigolds in the gate to our impressive new Gresham Court.

Being a mature college means that many students have had diverse careers before coming to Hughes. I have always liked the wealth of experience and knowledge this brings. It is fascinating to hear about everyone’s background: for example as a news reporter, in business, or in engineering (to name just a few). When combined with the diverse nature of the courses undertaken by Hughesians, from MBAs to public policy, law, and education, this makes for some very interesting conversations in the dining hall and bar.

Hughes is an egalitarian college.

Students are welcome to sit at any table in the hall, and the catering staff come and join us in the bar and at bops. While reflecting on the bops, the names of things we have enjoyed most may have different meanings in the rest of the world. Who knows what the term ‘bop’ means outside Cambridge? Elsewhere ‘Formal’ is an adjective rather than a social occasion, a May Ball would not be held in June, and Bumping someone wouldn’t be a good thing to do!

At the time of writing, the Bumps have yet to occur, but this is the first year that there is a solely Hughes Hall Boat Club following our agreed separation from our

friends at Lucy Cavendish. This has meant that an entirely new women’s club has been established, and in their first year they have seen considerable success. We have also had sporting success with our basketball and football teams doing well, amongst many others.

Over the coming summer the ground floor of the Wileman building is being refurbished, and we are replacing the very ‘well-loved’ furniture in the bar. This is also the end of the first year that a number of the college staff have been here. It has been great to work with them and see how keen they are to improve the student experience. For example, the students’ Vegan and Vegetarian Society has worked closely with college and managed to improve the food selection available.

When you leave Cambridge, we will be welcoming more students to Hughes Hall, another diverse and international bunch. The community of Hughesians will continue to grow year on year as this includes our alumni too: once a Hughesian, always a Hughesian! I hope to see many of you around college next year.

It has been a pleasure and an honour getting to know many of you. I wish you the very best success in your post-Cambridge pursuits. I will miss your presence in Cambridge, but am proud that your talents are benefiting the wider world.

Harry Holkham

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ooking back to our arrival as nervous Freshers in October 2015, none of us could have known how quickly our time at Jesus would fly by, nor how much we would all achieve. First impressions were a whirlwind of inductions, DoS meetings and new experiences. Our 90s-themed bop featured some inspired outfits, including Alex Rowe’s representation of ‘rave culture’, and Charlotte McDonald’s Edward Scissorhands.

Over the course of our first term, we got to know the 150 of students that we would be sharing the next three years with – a process that inspired some extravagant proposals of College marriage.

Sonnets were written, rings exchanged and a re-enactment of the Love Actually placards was attempted to a bemused Cara Dobinson, who had never seen the film.

The coming year saw us celebrate our first ‘Bridgemas’ at Christmas Formal, return wiser in Lent, and support each other through the highs and lows of our first exam term. Few of us will forget attending our first May Ball, for which College transformed into ‘The Uninhabitable’.

As the 2015 Freshers, we have certainly made our mark on Jesus and the University. Holly Hamilton and Sophie O’Reilly co-ordinated the John Hughes Arts Festival, bringing a week of artistic events to Jesus in memory of the late Dean of Chapel and Chaplain, John Hughes.

Members of our year have conducted the Jesus College Music Society, and together with other musicians, Jack Bazalgette established the new Malcolm Street Symphony Orchestra. Few of us will forget discovering the musical talents of our peers at week 5 Blues and Chill, set up by George Raikes.

Our year has numerous University Blues, Half Blues and Colours. Many of us have contributed to Jesus sports

teams, with Abigail Smith captaining the women’s first boat to headship of the river. When matched against Hertford and Jesus Colleges at Oxford, we achieved a resounding victory across the different sports.

Second year brought the opportunity for us to take the reins of the student union. Our committee saw an abundance of welfare cake, significant access progress, and the best JCSU garden party in memory. Our year has led inspiring Femsoc discussions, campaigned for the causes we care about and established a YouTube channel interviewing academics on subjects from quantum physics to personality.

In between all of this success was some academic work and a lot of fun.

Our Halfway Hall, organised by Vicky Taylor, provided an opportunity to come together and celebrate how far we’d come. Memorable moments include the rounders matches on the football pitch, the instalment of a paddling pool on Chapel Court lawn and the engineers’ construction of a cardboard boat. We’ve also had our fair share of misadventures, with one of us spending the night in a field 45 minutes from Cambridge, another on Chapel Court Lawn, and the swapping of an unlucky student’s bedroom furniture with the utility room (complete with tumble dryer). We’ve enjoyed punting through Cambridge, cycling to Grantchester and Ely, and swimming in the Cam. Looking back at the last three years, only now can we appreciate just how lucky we were to be admitted into such a supportive and talented year. Our time spent at the College has shaped who we are today, and I know that we will go on to make our mark on the world with the same enthusiasm and spirit that we have at Jesus.

Katherine Boucher

Lafayette Photography

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ccording to the punt chauffeurs’ legends, student life at King’s is pretty extraordinary. That’s true – but it’s not because your Tripos results determine which floor of Bodley’s you live on, as they’d have you believe. The real stories are far more interesting.

From the relieved sighs when we realised we weren’t the only ones who ‘couldn’t find time’ to read ‘Do No Harm’, to the communal display of scrunched-up faces as we squinted against the sun in our Matriculation photo, to our port and cheese party with the Chaplain... our first day at King’s was a whirlwind which would set the tone for the next few years.

We quickly plunged into every aspect of Cambridge life. King’s students have taken the stage of the ADC by storm, competed in a range of university sports, contributed to student newspapers, and even ventured into the Union. King’s Voices nailed every note on their recent Iceland tour, while KCMS has continued to thrive, outdoing themselves this year with the Alpine Symphony – wind machine and all! And of course, our involvement in student politics remained strong inside of College and out. So strong, in fact, that KCSU had to introduce new rules to keep Open Meetings from lasting forever!

As for sport, we quickly embraced King’s ethos of ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, have the best time trying’. As a year group we dominated the college teams – in particular, the founding members of our fledgling hockey team graduate today. We even took King’s plucky sporting attitude all the way to the Other Place for our inaugural varsity sports day with New College, filling Oxford with the timeless pre-match call of ‘3,2,1… KING’S!!!’

In summer, a sun-drenched brunch in Chet Court was the perfect antidote to the dual challenges of revision and battling

through hordes of tourists on the way to lectures. Last winter, we finally saw our beautiful home blanketed in snow, and couldn’t resist populating it with snowmen. Through everything, the iconic Jalias Caloberts kept us well-provisioned with ents, from singing our hearts out to the tunes of the legendary DJaarte to desperately guessing the weight of a bowl-culture bowl for pub quiz points. And who could forget the thrill of triumphing over KiFoMaSY – it nearly eclipsed actually attending the formal. Nearly.

King’s doesn’t do things by halves; the extravagant Founder’s Feast being a case in point. We took this attitude to heart.

Our incredible welfare officers brought us Welfare Day, the most wholesome day in the King’s calendar. Our Bunker Committee put on termly Mingles, the perfect chance to blow off steam at the end of Michaelmas and Lent. And finishing every Easter term was Funday, featuring everything you could possibly need to commit a whole day to the concept of fun. It turns out those things are sumo suits, ice cream, and the annual King’s Punt Race (AKA The Most Important Event in the University Sporting Calendar).

Hot on its heels, transforming the front lawn and hallowed halls into vestibules of flair, rapture and (yes, maybe just a little bit of) edge, the King’s Affair has been the exclamation mark punctuating each of our years here. Moments like our wonderful Reverend Andrew Hammond singing Amazing Grace alongside Courtney Act will stay with us forever.

At the heart of all of these memories, and the many more that there isn’t space for here, are the people we made them with.

This college is a community of incredible people with whom we’ve all been lucky enough to share this amazing time in our lives. Here’s looking at you.

Bethan Clark & Mark Robinson.

Lafayette Photography

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ellow Lucians, we did it! The day has finally come for us to graduate. College pride has been a central theme during our time here, and in this moment I could not be more proud of us.

When I think back on my three years here, many things stand out to me as uniquely ‘Cambridge’. That time we were walking to Lola’s and randomly ended up in a drunken discussion about astrophysics with some guys on the curb.

The countless hours in supervisions – some terrifying, some mind-blowing. All the times I walked through John’s, in awe of the magical architecture, or when I found myself weeping with gratitude during the John’s May Ball fireworks (yes indeed).

Our knowing looks of frustration across the library desks. Cursing the number of tourists on King’s Parade. Attempting to run across Trinity lawn (and failing).

Punting to Grantchester with enough cava and brie to make us question how we’d get back. Or that one time I made a philosophical inside joke in a third year supervision, eliciting a ‘ha ha’, suddenly feeling like I’d come full circle. The list goes on and on. What a crazy and beautiful place this is.

Some things are also uniquely Lucy.

The many formal halls, never with a high table but always with a lot of sherry and a very crisp grace. Our late-night bops with all the bangers we could wish for, and the ever welcome next day Saturday brunches. Spontaneous hangouts in somebody’s kitchen. Ice cream, ponies and guinea pigs. karaoke, ceilidhs, Blues and Schmoozes. Or just running into someone new and realising they may be one of the most interesting people you’ve met at Cambridge, because our college is so diverse and full of stories.

Personally, as the past Student Union president, I will particularly cherish the

look on the freshers’ faces when we made a toast to our college motto and first welcomed them into the community. That’s exactly how I see us: as a community.

Although graduating is a major win, it is in some ways also a loss, but I hope we can keep our community intact because it really is something special.

If anything, I hope you feel you’ve learnt something here. An education takes many forms, and for myself, I know I’ve grown not only as an academic but also as a person. I can barely remember how I used to think in first year. Just imagine how we’ll grow next. I can’t wait to find out.

We came, we saw, we made it ours. We will always have Cambridge. Now let’s take on the rest of the world, too.

Ida Svenonius

Lafayette Photography

J.Rollins E.Troconis Gonzalez S.Li M.Yeo J.Luo M.Surman S.Holm M.Futre S.Chiusi A.Pannier M.Hamilton H.Stewart K.Grillhoesl J.Damborg A.Hoyle R.H.Foy J.Jiang Y.Geng Y.Wu M.N.Ducrépin J.W.H.Lim J.L.Giannaros Y.Mookherjee S.M.Cox K.Hamann E.L.Gill A.K.Evans L.C.Raynaud D.Ettehad A.N.King I.Stojkovski M.K.W.Ballard A.M.Beinert S.M.Ng M.Gniss H.L.Edmondson M.Chan S.Uman M.Bacalja Perianes R.Z.Y.Ng I.Daskalova E.J.Gage S.R.Ariyawansa C.M.J.Salem I.C.Svenonius C.Dobson R.Kingdom R.Reader N.Lambrecht X.Kang A.A.Florou F.Chen S.La Hoz Theuer Y.C.Ng N.J.MaCartney S.Kalisch S.Lyddon T.Sickinger A.F.K.Svegborn J.R.Requin J.Ehlert M.Winder L.Forbes-Macphail L.Blaskova M.Codo M.Gonzalez Souto J.Aggleton E.S.Liddle L.K.Mason S.S.Siddiqui J.Bravic Y.Abramova M.Gates L.Meyering M.Li A.Martinez R.C.Basquel F.C.Alimagham L.Morrill J.Lo P.Sai Prasanna S.Perry S.Karcheva A.Maltin H.Rhodes M.Beneda R.Zhang M.Tyler von Wrangel L.Bernhardt A.Nuijten E.M.Fox H.Y.Lee M.G.Yarn C.Auger J.Strtak T.Basil C.Fiehn K.Hein S.Leuven M.N.A.Loken L.N.Schwoerer C.Rothenhaeusler G.Measures S.Xiong D.S.Gerz P.A.Hyder T.N.Malone V.Dulyasittikorn W.W.V.Sze-To X.Zhou S.Y.J.Wong A.Bru Revert L.Gazzotti B.Lee Dr .K.L.Stoeber J.Ashley Dr.S.Jackson S.Methner N.Rehnnuma J.Gallo A.G.Jones Buxton W.Cheng S.Tang H.Roberts-Taira Y.Long E.D.Soreide

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s soon as I set foot in the grounds of Magdalene, the sun shining on the famous Pepys library, I knew my three years here would not be like any other university experience. The small nature of the College makes a community feeling somewhat inevitable, always seeing a friendly face wherever you go. But on top of this, Magdalene has a passion. A passion in the shape of a merry pint of Wherry; that’s right, what also makes Magdalene tick is the Pick.

Thinking back to myself and our year as naïve freshers in October 2015, our first week can be aptly summed up by our most famous alumnus Pepys: it is ‘strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody’. This more or less describes our freshers’ week, a week with blurred faces, hungover matriculation photos and a candlelit formal dinner, all while navigating a new city and making friends along the way.

But at Magdalene it was easy to get into the swing of College life, with our small grounds meaning you will always see a friendly face. Ramsay Hall is where dreams have been made and dismayed, being the beacon of hope with weekend brunch but also transforming into the infamous haunt of bop. Our prime location means nights out were more than accessible by foot and our student loans have taken a hit by the ‘I’m just nipping to Sainsburys’ trips. The Magdalene porters are always the first ‘port’ of call, making locking yourself out of your room in a towel that tiny bit less excruciating.

Three years on, within Magdalene we can pride ourselves on our achievements in a variety of sporting and creative ways. We, as a year group, encompass sports Blues in lacrosse, tennis, rugby, volleyball, sailing and football; we have Thesps aplenty with two of the footlights; and we have the

spectacular Chapel choir whose voices are heard in performances globally.

Magdalene has also housed a very visible and active JCR Committee, and being President was a role which I undertook with pride. Being a state educated woman, I have witnessed Magdalene becoming a more inclusive place. We have seen regular LGBT+ events, Magdaladies creating safe arenas of thought for women, and the JCR’s access work showing how life at Magdalene can be achieved by anyone from any background.

Magdalene has taught me lessons on friendship, wisdom, and kindness, and also on word pronunciation, and a growing love of port. My time here has shown that it is not just a College within a University, but a family within a community, a place where we will always be welcome and many of us will long to revisit. The real world is coming at us thick and fast, and the thought of entering it is a frightening prospect, one that three years ago would have seen like a gargantuan task. However, as I am writing this after three years in Magdalene – having gained confidence and made lifelong friends – the real world is something we can all now tackle head on.

Alicia Pasiecznik

Lafayette Photography

C.Acasuso Rivero S.Barrass A.D.Basrur N.D.E.Baumann Y.L.Chang T.Charalambous S.Charoenchaipiyakul P.Chatzimpaloglou A.Corbella X.Cui R.C.Downie P.Fayos-Perez Y.I.I.Frankfurth M.Gatter A.Ghins M.P.Gutierrez F.Hadi A.Y.Hermans T.Heuer R.Hsu W.K.G.Huettenes A.J.Kane S.K.Koutroumpi E.S.Kruger S.R.W.Lang J-P.Lange R.Q.Liu K.W.E.Li S.C.Louis P.Magalhães de Oliveira N.Makarchev S.J.McGibbon I.D.C.McLean F.McNab M.N.B.Md- Ibrahim J.Mehrer E.Methymaki J.C.H.Minier M.D.Myers N.W.M.Newman A.E.I.Oliva U.Orchingwa D.A.Parker E.W.Parkinson A.L.Peters R.Pieterse A.Ramnath P.W.Relph M.Solera Diana S.Ternullo J.E.Thompson O.Turner A.Vetterl S.Wilson D.Zarubina N.Abdul-Karem E.Aho S.Andrews L.Anstice S.S.Ayagari G.M.Barbantan A.Barthel R.Bartlett T.R.Bastiaan A.Ben-Gad A.J.Bickersteth J.Bowskill F.Bush M.Chaine J.W.Chan S-F.S.Chen J.Cheng D.P.Chiverton W.S.Choi N.W.Clanchy P.Coleman T.Connolly L.N.M.Corry A.Coyne-Grell J.Cutajar N.Das E.Delaney S.Devlin F.L.C.Edmunds A.C.Fitzpatrick K.Flogaitis J.Forey T.Freeman E.Garry J.E.Girling C.Gordon C.Y.Graham R.Haberlach O.Hamilton J.E.KHamilton K.Harada R.Harvey E.J.Hassell T.C.Hegarty N.Heitler S.T.Herron A.J.Hibbert A.Hilton S.Horner E.A.Howcroft B. Irwin K.T.Jensen K.A.Jones S.B Kalairajah L.E.Keight R.E.Kelly Z.Khan S.I.Knowles Y.Kobayashi Lui L.G.D.Lavizani A.M Lawes K.B.T Leung S.C.Lewis Y.Li C.T.Ling J.Long-Martinez M.J.Lyons E.Mair S.Matcha C.L.McCartney G.McCluskey A.Netty A.F.E.Newton S-P.Nusser J.C.Pape L.F.Parry A.E.Pasiecznik I.G.Peters K.J.Phillips F.A.Pingel S.L.C.Ponté A.L.H.Prescott M.Qureshi J.P.J.Reynolds L.E.W.Richards J.Richardson H.S.Rigby R.Riordan S.Robson S.J.Rodwell A.Ruben E.Ryan Charleton A.Sasu-Twum E.Schaff P.H.T.Sit P.Sivakumar R.K.Smith K.Song D.Sritharan K.Suchodolski E.Taylor P.D.Thiarya P.Thomas Dr.J.Patterson Lord.Williams Dr.S.Martin C.Thorpe W.K.J.Tong H.Trunley A.J.Veale P.Wallwork C.M.Walsh K.C.Wan S.Williams J.C.Woodruff N.Xia Z.Xie Y.Zhao Y.Zhou

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t seems quite unbelievable that only three years have passed since we were eagerly putting up decorations in our first-year rooms. I’m sure Amazon was shocked by the number of orders of fairy lights to the same address that year! I still clearly remember the chaos that was Freshers Week 2015. It was an exciting time, meeting new people, eating so much free food and forever being in awe of the fact the dessert rose out of the floor at Matriculation Dinner. However, there was so much to take in and many of us found ourselves worrying, whether it was struggling with work or how to find the laundry room, or wondering ‘oh which one’s the Long Room again?’ and ‘maybe I should waste money on buying that club night wrist band that I’m not going to use to its full potential’. However, the huge amount of support from the people at Medwards quickly made these concerns vanish.

The people here are what make Medwards so amazing. The gardeners created chill-out spots such as a mini beach or the nest and grew fresh herbs, spinach and flowers for you to pick and the librarians decorated the library with inspirational posters and provided tea, biscuits and nail art supplies to give you a break during that essay crisis.

We have the best porters who would happily discuss their day with you but were also so helpful that they made you question how you have ever lived without them. We also had the most approachable fellows who made the demands of a Cambridge degree that little bit more manageable.

Everyone here contributed to the positive and supportive atmosphere that was synonymous with Murray Edwards College.

Your fellow students are people you will treasure forever. I remember one of my

main concerns when starting University was whether I would make friends but I had nothing to worry about. With such a diverse group of inspirational and kind people all in one place, how could you not make friends at Medwards?!

We all have had different experiences but there are some common moments that all Medwards students remember with fondness. Pearl house corridors were where lifelong friendships were born and Dome became an escape from the library whether it was hour-long lunches or arriving extra early for brunch. I mean did you really go to Medwards if you haven’t strategically planned how to avoid the queues at brunch? We’ve all experienced the happiness when we remember skive@5 is on or when our late-night plea for double-sided tape on the MECSU Facebook page has been answered.

Various student and JCR-run events have become the most memorable moments of college life, whether it was the apple crumble at Apple Day bringing everyone around a warm bonfire on a cold winter’s day, or the relaunch of Dome Bop allowing you to step away from all your deadlines and just have fun.

The Murray Edwards Garden Party was one of the highlights of May Week where we celebrated the end of the year with our friends in the summer sun. These people were the ones who made you feel better when you were down, allowed you to unload to them when you were particularly angry or stressed and shared the joys of some incredible moments these past three years.

I’m sure I speak on behalf of all students when I say that we are forever grateful to have attended Murray Edwards College.

For us, Dome will always be home.

Mrudula Utukuri

Lafayette Photography

I.M.Abdul-Nour A.Agrawal L.A.Alger S.F.Ali L.H.Alphonse O.R.Armitage R.L.Attwood G.R.Baines L.Bates F.C.R.Bishop G.E.R.Bollen Gandolfo A-M.Borbely M.A.Brown E.L.G.Burton R.S.Casimir-Brown H.S.Cesarani A.C.Chui B.R.Collier Harris I.M.B.E.Connor-Helleur M.Constantinou B.A.Cross M.Cuartero Marco R.J.Daltry S.C.da Silva E.L.Davidson A-I.Deac A.M.K.Dennis R.J.Duxbury A.E.Esch P.T.Fekete H.L.Fisher S.E.Fox A.M.Gibbons J.B.Grant E.F.Greenwood L.M.Hagger R.Gupta R.E.Hodgson N.C.Hussein M.R.D.Hymer M.K.Kahai A.M.King W.Z.S.Knop A.Kroupeev L.E.Kruszewski A.R.Leach S.H.Lelliott S.Liang F.Lin S.Long-Callesen I.F.McConnell A.E.McCormick H.J.Mason D.G.Mills N.Narozanska M.L.E.Nicholson D.L.Oxborrow J.A.Pallister F.A.Parker C.R.Parpworth I.Y.Pearce-Mason C.L.Percival C.S.J.Pettit J.S.Phillips H.A.Piatkowski C.A.M.Plas C.Pont E.Pound E.J.Read R.Reichert C.K.Rixon D.E.M.Sauven I.Sciamanna I.Sgambellone A.E.Shaw Y.Shi J.C.A.M.Skidmore J.K.Skinner A.E.N.Strouts A.L.Stuart-Bourne R.L.Thomas C.S.To L.O.Treherne M.Utukuri A.H.van Daalen A.J.C.Veitch L.R.L.Vincent Y.Wang H.M.Ward L.E.Waters T.Y.I.Woo Dr.P.Forster Dame B.Stocking Dr.J.Foster A.L.Williams K.J.Woolnough C.F.Worster Y.Wu H.Q.Wu M.Xie M.S.E.Yeo H.M.Yogasundram E.R.Young R.Zhao

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Newnham College

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hat stands out to you when you think of fresher’s week back in 2015? For me, it’s dropping oil all over the kitchen floor on my first night and realising in that moment that I didn’t own any kitchen roll. Maybe one of the moments you remember is the shrieking at our first College Feast as lifelong connections were made and two of our number discovered – much to their vocal delight – that they shared a birthday. Or perhaps what comes to mind is the first fire drill, standing on the grass and shivering in your dressing gown, noting with wry bemusement that perhaps the admissions office had been letting in boys after all.

A lot has happened in the years between then and now, and it’s hard to sit here and attempt to summarise our time at Newnham in just 500 words. How to capture the joys of three (on average) years of proudly traversing Newnham grounds free from the tyrannical constraints of other Colleges’ “Please keep off the grass” signs? How to capture the devastating loss of a Plodge and college bar? The communal mourning as we, the very last to know it, said goodbye to the iconic building that was Strachey?

There’s nothing quite like Newns. Or like getting a parcel notification at 10.31 am.

Here is one thing that definitely needs saying – one thing that, without doubt, we will all miss: more than we will miss what was the ‘second-longest corridor in Europe’; more than we will miss the trips to the porters to ask again for a temporary key card; more than watching Eurovision in the Lucia Windsor room; or Instagram feeds of the views from different rooms in College; or NCBC love. I know that, most of all, we will all miss the Buttery Menu.

Never again will we be greeted each day by the Buttery Menu landing in our

inbox, along with a much anticipated gem of wisdom for the day. I’m not sure what I will do without wisdom such as: ‘You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.’ And certainly none of us were quite sure what to do with the fateful: ‘Today is a blue moon day!... don’t get too blue! Ha ha ha’!

It is difficult to be leaving behind us the familiar struggles of the room ballot and the KFC, exchanging them instead for lots of unknowns. Never again will we walk through Pfeiffer arch as undergrads. But I hope that today we are all able to look back with fondness and full-grown pride at being a Newnhamite – a pride that will prove itself to be longlasting.

Congratulations everyone on making it to graduation! For such an occasion I borrow a phrase from catman@newn.cam. ac.uk and wish that each of you ‘have an amazing day carving out your destiny’.

Newnham has taken us each so far, and I’m so excited for where we are headed next.

Rachel Mander

Lafayette Photography

A.Gee S.L.Christie C.J.Benn A.R.Morrice C.A.Caplan A.E.Cozens G.Eapen A.C.S.Stuart E.K. Smith L.G.Boddington T.Khokhar A-R.Harris G.E.Whorrall-Campbell C.Petrie J.C.Russell A.V.Holtermann O.Childs O.H.Papadakis C.F.van Wel F.Dobson U.P.Khandelwal S.Wei R.A.Knowles K.N.Branley I.M.S.Rosner H. Marks A.K.Sularz I.F. Mackinnon A.F.Menin C.Bar K.E.Hann C-Y.Lee J.Grimmel A.E.Bates S.Marnerou I.R.Nash A.Jain E.K.Servante E.I.Irwin J.Li S.van Staden J.S.Rees O.A.Hylton-Pennant A.Knorlein K.Randall G.Crowley B.M.Bartlett H.Knox H.G.Blohm R.J.Mander A.J.Bell L.E.Emanuel I.R.L.Bentley R.J.Bishop H.G.Tunks A.Jenei A.Pearson E.L.H.Charlesworth A.E.Coppock E.Okafor R.K.Illingworth X.Liu L.V.Jarman C.W.Costello C.E.Marriott K.Z.A.Grobicki M.Lloyd-Palmer A.L.M.Guillaume M.F.B.Macey E.Holloway S.McVea H.K.Watson F.E.Gormally K.V. Guest H.E.Gilliland M.L.Bird A.Campbell H.Whitaker J.Jouas-Yosano A.E.Slater G.Z.L.Ng J.A.Henry A.Lister V.S.Upor L.G.I.Ashfield K.Singhal L.E.Thomas S.X.X.Chew J.Yung M.Smith E.O.Iyaniwura G.Liu H.O.Jones M-A.Ivanciu Y.A.El-Serafy C.H.Lim I.Sanders

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s we draw to the end of what is, for many third years, our final year at Cambridge, one of the aspects I already anticipate missing the most is being part of Pembroke. Whilst I have no doubt that friends, colleagues and maybe even the porters will welcome me back to visit in the coming years, not being able to swipe through meals in trough, pick up letters from my pidge or automatically connect to the wifi is going to feel strange.

The atmosphere at Pembroke has always been one of support and friendship amongst students and across year groups, and one of my favourite things about it is that it is all together in one place: cosy, but not claustrophobic as we can stray out as far as Selwyn Gardens and Grange Road.

Lots of my favourite memories of Pembroke are centred around one place: G Staircase. G might have lost our gargoyles and rooms overlooking the library, but we’ve kept our name and gained more members. When I envisioned university life before Pembroke, it probably wasn’t one of board games and ‘tea at 10’ but as it turned out, it couldn’t have been more fun.

Fresher’s week was a highlight of first year, and one of the very few times I’ve actually been to Cindies (I now associate Pembroke more with Lola’s). The most embarrassing (sober) moment of the week for me was deciding too late to include my middle name in the matriculation book, so I guess ‘Joanna Tose Taylor’ is going to be in the archives forever now.

Once we’d made it through the year, there was of course our first June Event.

For some reason the owl by the chapel really stands out in my memory from that night (maybe because it wasn’t there in second year), but the best part was being driven around in the dodgems by Dan and then driving around Luke. Oddly, I didn’t actually get whiplash until May

Ball in second year, and that had far more to do with some questionable karaoke head-banging.

Second year was the year of the bop. It’s a sad state of affairs that many freshersto-be will never know the simple joy of boptails, an unlimited number of drinks which somehow always managed to be both incredibly watery and incredibly alcoholic. I suppose at least they’ll probably remember some of the bops they’ve been to.

More recently, May Ball was incredible — Loyle Carner is the greatest performer you’ve heard of purely from festival line-ups and I really enjoyed the addition of the ferris wheel. I was also lucky enough to go and watch Pembroke compete in University Challenge with Katie, and hear Jeremy Paxman utter the words “your mascot is a bloody nuisance” about our beloved, if somewhat disheveled, Paddy Pembroke.

I leave Pembroke very happy in the knowledge that we are now, between CUSU and the GU, pretty much running the university, and that we have by far the best college meme page. Being a PemMember these three years has on the whole been a brilliant experience, and I look forward to finding out what the future holds for myself and all of the friends I have made whilst here.

Joanna Taylor

Lafayette Photography

S.Allan H.C.Allison T.Anand T.R.Andersson S.Appasani E.J.Apsley S.Armstrong E.B.Aspinall L.Azzi K.R.Bagger J.A.R.Bamber H.K.Bishopp J.Bolton H.Brown J.E.Burdett E.Buss L.Cazaly C.T.Chalaby H.Y.Chan M.A.Clarke A.J.Cliffe E.Clifford M.Coates D.Cole C.Crisp M.Curson C.C.P.Cyriac M.Danowska A.Deniszczyc E.Dickinson Y.Du L.D’urso M.Edwards E.Elgood Hunt N.Elliott F.C.N.Fabryceny E.Fosong I.Fox E.Gibbons K.J.Gibson W.Grace C.Green A.Groes J.Guan P.Gull A.Hallajian M.Harte A.He J.Heales B.Z.Homonnay T.R.Hubble E.Hughes J.P.L.Hughes O.Hulme L.K.Iwamoto-Stohl D.James F.Jasik A.Jiang L.Johansen-Villanueva P.Jones A.Kanavalau A.E.Kreager J.Kurle P.Kwok R.Lao D.Le T.Lee J.S.Lewis-Brown E.M.Lindsay S.Lo B.McConnell M.McLeish J.MacLeod G.N.Manley J.V.Mante R.F.March A.Mortazavi B.Mortishire-Smith G.B.Moss M.Moss A.I.Munteanu L.C.G.Naylor-Perrott J.J.P.Needham S.Ni E.M.A.O’Brien H.Ockenden J.Okundaye J.P.C.L.Ornelas A.O’Shea T.Owen C.E.Pearson R.E.Phillips M.Poljanc D.Popa Cristobal J.Richardson E.Roberts J.P.Robson A.Sahota D.J.Sanderson H.D.Sarson C.J.H.P.Scheulen R.J.Z.Schmetterling L.Senegri B.Sercombe M.Sharma H.Sheerin R.L.Shopova H.Short F.L.Shuttleworth P.Z.Simon L.M.C.Slater B.T.Smith E.F.Smith E.Spence S.Stanko A.D.Szlezinger C.H.L.Tan R.X.S.Tan E.J.Taylor J.Taylor M.Thomson C.Thorpe W.J.Tilbrook L.F.Upstone C.Valarche C.R.Vickers C.J.Ward T.J.Whittaker E.M.Whorrall-Campbell B.T.Wright G.C.Wright Y.Xing S.N.R.Young T.U.Zeisner R.Y.Zhang V.Bartninkas M.S.Bauer I.Bernocchi L.Boorman P.Borisova J.Braden-Golay M.K.Bruun M.R.Cohen S.M.Dimond N.A.Dixon C.M.Dolfen A.Eder S.J.Falo Sanjuan R.C.Feord M.J.Forrest M.F.E.Hill J.S.Hutton A.M.Huxley K.Ilko J.Kuschnitzki M.K.Kolialkowska C.Khe N.K.Lee Z.Liu P.J.Marett E.Miller F.J.L.Milway J.S.Nathan K.Nelson T.F.W.Nicholson N.Nikkhah C.P.Noonan E.H.Parker M.Liu M.Petek P.Poddar F.G.Polatch T.R.Powell Davies K.Robertson A.Romans S.A.Ropek-Hewson S.Rossel P.Rushworth A.Sazonovs E.Serra S.Sharma P.W.Shyba Lord C.Smith Rev B.Watchorn I.Stokholm M.Strubenhoff H.Suresh M.Sharp A-S.Thwaite P.Trotter A.Van Kan P.Wieprzowski F.S.Williams P.Williamson E.Wilson L.Wolanicka L.Wong

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’m writing this having just finished packing to return to Cambridge for what might be the final time, and it feels strange. Peterhouse has been a home to me as I’m sure it has for many, and its ever-cited ‘smallest college’ status has been fundamental in making it so. Everyone knowing everyone has, for the most part, been a blessing.

As a year-group I feel we’ve left our stamp on both the College and on Cambridge more widely. Petreans of 2015–18 have proven themselves to be a talented and doggedly enthusiastic bunch, boasting Union ‘hacks’ (said with love), some formidable thesps, fashion show celebrities and strong sports teams, to name a few. Some noteworthy successes include a Cuppers win for the women’s football team, a record-breaking M1 boat, and a Petrean in each of the winning men’s and women’s University Lightweights boats. A large proportion of the year responds automatically with a nostalgic smile and exasperated eye-roll at the sound of the words ‘Bugsy Malone’, and I have every confidence that ‘Food of the Week’ will be adopted in restaurants the world over.

Our time here has happily involved some really progressive firsts, which many of us are very proud of. We welcomed Peterhouse’s first female master, Bridget Kendall, who has been a refreshing and inspiring figurehead for the college, and in the same year we all celebrated 30 years of the admission of women to Peterhouse.

Countless wonderful women have taken up important roles in College life in the past three years – and long may they continue to do so! In February 2017 the College flew the rainbow flag for LGBT+ History Month for the first time, and did so again this year. The liberation teams from JCR Committees past and present have worked tirelessly to make the

College a safe haven for everyone, and the dedication of both students and staff to widening access to Peterhouse and making visitors welcome has been heart-warming to watch.

Naturally, there have been some controversies. The summer of 2016 brought ‘Pexit’, which I think we can all look back on as a poorly organised but entertaining burst of angsty student politics. The identity of the Peterhouse 17 remains in question. The great pool table scandal of the academic year 2017–18 continues to shake the very foundations of the College, apparently.

I think a word in celebration of some of our lovely College spaces is also in order. Some of our fondest memories will be of the Plevy Bar, which has housed Peterhouse culture clashes at their finest (picture a Boat Club Dinner after-party infiltrated by a small strange boy in a scruffy coat, who is spilling wine from atop a table). The Deer Park in all its daffodilly glory has been a hidden gem as both a revision and celebration space. And I think someone said something about ‘the oldest secular building in Europe still used for its original purpose’, but I’m not sure what that means.

My impression is that, despite the probably very different experiences the 76 of us have had over the past three years, the eclectic nature of the College has been something warm and formative for us all.

Peterhouse has been a truly colourful place to spend three years, and I’m sure I don’t just speak for myself when I say that I’ll miss it very, very much. Happy graduation guys, and congrats – we’re a far cry from first year essay crises now!

Rebecca Robinson

Jet Photographic

I.M.Weber T.Wijvekate K.A.M.Williams M.D.Williamson J.J.Winslow N.G.Wright C.Yang Y.L.O.Yang L.Zeng N.M.Zetter G.H.Zhang Y.H.Zhao T.A.C.Zillhardt I.Zubeldia Lafuente L.J.S.Samuels C.Schultheiss D.J.Shani G.K.Sheehan E.L.Sheekey F.J.Sherry O.J.She-Yin J.A.Shoesmith E.J.Silverstone J.L.Slingo W.E.Smart A.J.Smith J.A.O.Spray A.M.Stanojevic D.C.Steventon A.A.Syed S.D.A.Thomas K.W.C.A.Tsang A.M.Tully F.Van Loock A.E.Walls E.J.McDonald-Dick C.A.R.McNally G.V.R.Majury K.B.E.Martin-Cussons E.S.Marx L.Masullo L.H.Meah-Wilson R.Menon B.L.Merrett B.G.J.Merrick J.R.V.Moore F.B.Nielsen W.R.Orchard P.Ouysook L.Paoli A.T.Plygawko A.Prachakova N.H.Pygott R.J.Robinson E.Salgarella N.M.Holmes E.M.Hong L.M.Hua R.Hui K.Iyer V.A.Jatikusumo J.Jazbec A.Johnson J.Kalda R.A.Katz W.Kaye J.W.Kidd M.D.Knight T.A.Last G.R.Laye I.B.G.Lee S.L.Ler A.L.Lhedmat A.Y.Li Z.N.D.Liu J.Lu A.M.E.Calderbank B.Casiraghi C.S.Clubb C.M.Cowper J.W.E.Cremin K.R.Croydon Veleslavov S.Dedenbach A.J.Donovan K.L.Drew E.Dzafic K.C.Ekwunife J.H.J.Ellison C.Fallon V.L.Forliti O.K.C.Fung J.D.H.Gabrillo T.W.Gatward A.K.S.Giudici S.A.S.Grell X.G.Guo S.Hanebaum P.C.Harlay C.N.Adams-Waite F.Ahmed S.D.Ali H.L.Anderson-Elliott M.L.Andrisani C.F.Auersperg R.F.Augarde E.A.Baines Dr S.M.Murk Jansen Revd Dr S.W.P.Hampton Dr C.G.Lester L.Baldwin L.B.Basford R.T.J.Beckett I.M.Bilal N.K.Bird A.Bittleston J.W.Boorman J.G.Broman E.Byrne

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ess than three years have passed since we first arrived at Queens’, but in that short space of time a lifetime’s worth of memories has been forged. The very earliest of these are a little blurred – perhaps due to our busy schedules that left no time for reflection, or perhaps because the Cambridge lifestyle was so disorientating at first – but they will undoubtedly be treasured for years to come.

Some of these memories will provide plenty of opportunity for nostalgia. I am quite sure that none of us had experienced anything quite like the Queens’ May Ball before coming to Cambridge, nor had we had the pleasure of attending a subject Mahal. There are, however, some things that we may wish to forget: I am sure that none of us wish to relive the pain of running out of 20p coins when in need of clean clothes, or to reminisce about the untimely fire drills.

We will never forget Queens’ though.

Queens’ has a distinct character: although a large College, it fosters a close-knit community in which members each year group get to know one another very well. Some have suggested that Queens’ achieves this by concentrating the freshers in Cripps Court, so that they have a place to congregate. Others prefer to account for our year-group’s closeness by reference to having shared each other’s pain over the past three years: we united, for example, in our shared grief when bops were temporarily cancelled in 2015, and united in inability to understand the complicated operation of the housing ballot. In truth, however, what really ties us all to one another is a mutual appreciation of the Queens’ Eight at brunch. It may be greasy, and it may leave you feeling a little worse for wear, but it is just too good to turn down.

One of the real pleasures of having

been at Queens’ is that it is made up of individuals with a diverse range of interests. Our cohort, for example, includes a number of talented athletes, and there have been notable sporting successes during our time at Queens’. In our first year, the QCAFC 1st XI lifted the Division 1 trophy, while the 2nd XI found success in the cup competition, winning the Shield. The women’s team has also found success, securing promotion to Division 1. Queens’ has managed to find success on the river, with both the men’s and women’s boats winning their divisions in that time. Our rugby team has been a force to be reckoned with, having reached the Cuppers final twice in the past three years.

Many of our talented athletes have taken their successes beyond a college-level and have represented the University: from our year group, students have earned blues in a variety of disciplines, including athletics, water-polo, lacrosse, and dance.

In these last three years, Queens’ has been exposed to an amazing array of musical and artistic talent. We have been lucky indeed to have had regular MagSoc performances and Candle Club nights run

by QAmnesty, which have brought soulful performance to our College bar. It is also a privilege to have had so many talented thespians in our cohort, some of whom have toured around the globe showcasing their talent.

It would be remiss of me not to extend a warm thank you, on behalf of our entire cohort, to Sophie and Jirka, both of whom have done an incredible job running our annual year-group dinners. These dinners are a highlight of the academic year, and we will look back on them fondly.

Benjamin Collins

Lafayette Photography

Z.Jiang C.Y.Z.Tan Y. Yang W.R.T.Ackernley S.Adekoya S.Ali S.Ali G.M.Allsop A.Ananthajeyasri E.Andersen J.E.Anstee K.B.Armstrong H.B.Aspegren O.N.Babasola R.Bailey H.M.Barker A.T.Bartram F.P.Birkel S.L.Bull D.O.Bulman E.L.Burrows J.P.Campbell D.S.Carbonari C.H.Carslaw C.J.Chivers H.T.A.Chuang M.Cohen R.E.J.Colley B.O.Collins J.R.Corderoy C.M.Cromie S.M.Davies L.M.Delaunay J.F.Dent-Pooley A.J.Doherty D.R.Drazen S.D.Edirappuli D.Ellis B.A.Ferris B.Flett M.Fooks S.T.J.Gielen H.C.Gildersleeves R.Glew H.C.C.Gooch P.N.Grishin A.G.Grounsell S.Guo Q.Ha A.Hackney L.M.Hagmann N.Halberstam S.Hall L.C.Hamilton K.Hart J.Hassim V.S.Hatami K.M.Higham C.Hilley E.L.Hobbs O.S.Houghton I.C.Houston Y.Y.J.Hsu E.J.Huggins C.Hyland M.C.Imperial Sanchez-Pardo L.Ives J.Jackson E.L.Jones L.Jones N.M.J.Kellner K.C.King E.Kleanthous D.P.Knott K.Kumar D.G.Lafferty E.D.Lane K.H.Lavall-Smith W.L.Law A.D.Lawrence J.Lhotka D.Liu J.Lou C.Luchini J.Mackay M.K.Maloney C.G.Maney A.E.Mason R.F.L.Mellor H.E.A.Mercer C.R.Merrell E.B.Messchendorp S.Miller B.Minett J.Monko W.L.Morris A.C.Mulcahy B.Mustafa Y.H.J.Ng T.C.Norman C.M.S-M.Norris T.D.O’Brien Y.C.Ong A.Orphanou H.L.Pang A.Papastergiou J.Patel P.Patil C.Payne F.Penrose A.Petrosyan D.Phillips J.Prideaux-Ghee A.Pryke C.Qi C.K.I.Ranmuthu S.Rao C.Richards C.Ridley-Johnson C.H.Roberts E.V. Russell F.Scalbert J.Scott N.L.Seaton H.E.Shakespeare C.T.Shang J.K.Simpson J.C.W.Spencer L.J.Stancliffe S.F.M.Sterne N.T.Sumanasekera W.Sun A.Sur Roy N.Swaddiwudhipong Y.H.Tan D.D.Tapasvi M.C.Thomas H.R.Thompson H.Thompson H.L.V.Thomson C.A.Thornham C.G.Turnbull V.L.Vanderstichele L.J.Volke B.A.Walters A.Wells A.R.Whitehead E.Williams O.J.Wilson-Nunn Q.H.Wong H.A.Woods K.Woods I.Yakunin G.F-W.Young R.Young

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t seems like only yesterday that we were making our way down the stairs to the ‘Party Room’ for the very first bop of Freshers’ Week. The theme was ‘A Nightmare on Grange Road’, but I’m sure we can all agree that the last three years have been anything but. We’ve seen Robinson evolve from the glory days of the 2016 Football Cuppers final to the wonders of the Community Fridge, and as a year-group have achieved an amazing amount along the way.

Tucked away between the back of Trinity and a world famous real tennis sports centre, Robinson is renowned for its cheap pints and brutalist charm. What we lack in Hogwarts architecture, we certainly make up for in character, in the buzz of the ‘GR”’ the mystery of the Crausaz-Wordsworth Building, and the deepest darkest depths of the JCR. And in the Red Brick Café, we’ve enjoyed countless stuffed crust Chicago Town pizzas and an endless stream of freshly made cookies thanks to the wonderful bar staff.

As a year-group, we’ve been part of many sporting successes. Our cohort has produced some sterling Rugby players, sensational Varsity skiing talent, and a kick-ass women’s karate captain to name but a few. The women’s side of the Boat Club won superblades in the 2016 Lent Bumps, the netball team reached the semi-finals of Cuppers last year, and the rugby team came second in the league, captained by a member of our year. We’ve also transformed many Robinson societies, witnessing the glow-up of Brickhouse Theatre in fantastic productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. We’ve revived The Brick, created the infamous Community Toothbrush, and who could forget the fleeting success of the Colouring In Society. We’ve enjoyed three hearty renditions of Five Gold Rings at Christmas

Formal and rounded of the year with some fantastic May Balls: ‘Robinson Crusoe’, ‘The Night Circus’ and ‘Suspicion’.

As we leave Robinson, we can rest assured that the college is in the safe hands of our dutiful porters, working to ensure that the College remains the most fire-retardant building in Cambridge. It’s hard to sum up an experience which has been, for many, both extremely difficult and extremely rewarding, but I hope that everyone will have some great memories from the last three years. I for one look forward to finding out what everyone does next – who knows, maybe we’ll even have some more Blue Peter presenters to join the dizzy heights of Robinson fame.

Cat Somerville

Lafayette Photography

D.A.D.Adebayo P.Adefioye J.Alexander E.S.A.Altmann-Richer G.L.Andersen T.M.J.Banks A.Baranowski J.Barton W.Birch C.D.Boateng.Smith E.E.Bottomley W.Boys-Stones A.I.Brennan J.A.Buck N.F.Buckingham N.Calvert S.W.K.Chan D.Christie F.G.Collie T.G.Colverd M.J.Cox M.Croghan A.Curran P.Curry A.Dalgleish E.Davies L.A.Dell L.M.De.Paepe A.Dewhurst J.J.Doyle R.Dragulin J.Efiong J.B.D.Elsner S.E.J.Ferry H.M.Foo O.J.S.Fox O.Friend A.Gandhi E.Garlake T.J.Glasson C.Gooding A.Gray M.J.Grimm R.M.Guthrie A.J.Harper E.M.C.Hartley A.Hatoum R.D.Herlekar R.A.Hornsby C.Hou C.Howson-Smith L.Judd T.S.Khan S.J.Kirby C.Kirk M.D.Kite C.P.Y.Lam G.L.Leoni S.Lewis X.Li X.Li J.Y.Lim N.Luengrattanakorn R.S.Y.Ma R.J.Mackett G.M.Mandana M.M.J.C.Martin R.Masters M.J.B.Matson T.McCann G.McCosh M.E.Medhurst W.P.Neville-Towle T.Z.Ng J.O’Shaughnessy E.M.H.Palmer M.Patel M.J.Peniket U.A.Pereira C.Plaschkes T.Pollard M.J.Price L.J.Prince A.Raymond D.J.Reavley M.Rice-Jones L.Robertshaw N.J.Robinson C.Rosen M.Rowell C.P.Ryan V.Sassow C.L.Simpson G.Sivamani E.F.Smith H.Smith H.J.D.Smith M.Smolins C.Somerville M.E.Spry C.Taylor J.Timmins M.Truta H.Uri C.Val.Mas N.Vasic D.Verghese T.von.Keutz A.Wainwright J.Ward Mr.C.D. Barnes Prof.A.D.Yates Dr.W.P.Nolan D.J.Waters E.A.Weaver N.Weisberg K.E.Whitehouse E.Wills S.T.C.Wong T.K.M.Wong A.S.Young Z.Zahariev T.Zhang

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atz is somewhat of a hidden gem amongst the central colleges of Cambridge. Despite being the only college with an open court, passers-by often overlook us, believing our site to be an extension of our imposing neighbour King’s. Indeed our grounds are so compact, we could comfortably fit inside Trinity’s Great Court. Yet it is precisely this modesty and simplicity that explains Catz’ reputation of being the ‘friendliest college’.

Having the most students per square metre means we can’t help but get to know everyone, making Catz wonderfully inclusive.

What we lack in space, we make up for in thriving extracurriculars with the choir performing in Singapore; the predictably popular ‘Text-a-Donut’ introduced by our welfare reps brightening up students’ lives; therapeutic walks with Toby the Master’s dog; and a Smoothie Society helping everyone get their 5-a-day to keep week 5 blues away. Our JCR committee completed several projects including the full introduction of liberation officers as voting members, the provision of women’s sanitary products in the bathrooms around college, the implementation of Access Awards for students visiting schools and a revamped JCR. Outside of College, the Cambridge Union and the Cambridge Guild have Catz presidents, both Varsity and the Tab have Catz editors and the theatre scene is host to many actors following in the footsteps of Sir Ian McKellen, who visited us in Michaelmas.

On the sporting front, Catz has excelled with the most blues per capita. Our hockey teams reigned supreme with an historic hat-trick of Cuppers wins in which we scored 14 and conceded just two. One fifth of the University cycling team featured Catz students, the basketball team

got promoted and the newly founded waterpolo team reached the final of Cuppers in their inaugural season. Rowing remains as popular as ever, with Sophie Shapter coxing the University women’s crew to victory.

In spite of our sporting success, Catz sport is open to everyone and those less athletically gifted are welcomed into inclusive communities merely for wanting to represent their College. This dedication to sport fosters friendships that transcend year-groups and subjects creating a closer community. The endless support from friends cheering on from the sidelines is characteristic of Catz even when we have less successful teams competing, however rare this may be. Vocal students and staff supporters sing the battle cry “For the Wheel”– and it is this encouragement that highlights what Catz is all about.

Naturally, the College would not be as special as it is without our friendly bedders, talented kitchen staff, very proactive maintenance staff, understanding librarians and dedicated and inspiring fellows. As the friendly front of College, our porters are very approachable, with new Head Porter, Dave Dove, taking to his role like a fish takes to water. The newly appointed Master, Professor Sir Mark Welland has been especially keen to work and build stronger relations with the JCR, and the outgoing Senior Tutor, Dr Paul Hartle has always been there to advise, guide and support us in all our endeavours, for which we can’t thank him enough. Outwardly Catz may seem quite unassuming, but as I’m sure anyone who goes here will tell you, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Muhammed Khan

Lafayette Photography

S.Agarwal W.J.Ager L.Akaje-Macauley A.Andohkosh K.Aoki W.Ashley-Fenn S.Bailey M.J.Ballentine R.Bansal E.S.H.Barker W. Barnes-McCallum L.R.Barr L.H.Bausch S.P.G.Blacker B.Bolderson A.A.Bowes C.Brunet H.A.Burdon G.Burrows J.A.Capel C.Carr A.C.Carrington D.S.Carroll M.L.Cheyney A.Clarkson M.Clesham F.G.Conlon F.E.Corner L.E.Cracknell M.Craig I.Cripps T.Dar J.Davies S.W.I.De Heer M.Diggin B.K.Downey D.Draksas A.M.Dubiak B.P.Dudgeon J.D.P.Edwards W.Entwisle K.Eyre E.Facon O.Fanizza K.Fischbacher J.Forsdyke T.Fox A.C.French E.Gelzinyte A.P.Gerhold R.Gohil R.Gough P.L.Hagenmeyer K.J.Hamilton A.E.E.Handy A.Ho J.Hu H.Hunter Gordon C.Irvine N.J.H.Jenkins P.Ji W.Johnson K.Juhasz D.Kalvaitis M.Kennedy N.L.Y.Khoo H.F.S.King J.A.C.Kleeman E.Kletnieks M.C.Knightley J.D.Langcaster R.Lasrado J.Lawson S.Ledger R.E.Lee M.G.J.Lubrano-Lavadera C.Y.Lui E.Z.Mahon R.Manaley R.T.G.Martin O.B.R.McArdle L.M.McGeachin E.McGuigan R.T.McMillan X.Mendes-Jones M.L.Meredith L.M.L.Michaelides J.W.Misterka L.Morris A.N.Myers F.P.Niven I.Noble J.H.Orriss D.P.Owens S.Padt H.G.N.Page H.Patel P.Perrin G.Plastow V.S.Popat H.E.Potter E.Raffell R.A.M.Rao A.K.Reeves Pigott E.Ren H.S.L.Rendell-Bhatti M.J.Rennie J.Robertson M.I.Rose S.Ross J.E.Ross K.Ruszkowski A.Schafer D.Shah I.C.Shears C.Y.S.Sia Y.S.J.Siemens L.J.Sinvula L.Sketeris C.W.Smith M.B.Soselia E.Stagni J.E.J.Stevens H.Taghinejadi F.Tait R.Tomkute Z.Tsangalidou M.Tully H.N.Twist S.Varawalla A.Volford A.G.Wales Dr.P.N.Hartle Prof.Dame.J.Thomas DR.R.W.Dance J.Wang E.J.K.Webb E.R.D.Willey V.Wongsathapornpat S.J.Woods J.R.Yass H.Yoshida A.C.Zanre R.Zhao Z.Zhu

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n your way to Aldi, you might wonder what happened to the big ugly building on the corner of Huntingdon Road and Mount Pleasant. In fact, it has been taken down to give rise to a whole new accommodation block for none other than St Edmund’s College. Perched on the top of Mount Pleasant, this No Ordinary College has been in rapid expansion, having doubled its size in the last 5 years.

The College houses students over the age of 21 from all over the world, giving it its rightful place as the most international college in Cambridge.

Thanks to its internationality, the College harbours a vibrant environment and a plethora of clubs and societies. Between cricket, netball, football, squash, rugby, and rowing, the social and the athletic are blended together seamlessly giving you plenty of choice in how to use your free time (what free time??). Additionally, our book and poetry clubs have been especially active this year. Together with a number of painters and singers, this was one of the most artistic years at the college, so much so that the first ‘Ars et Mundus’ art festival was organised to showcase Eddie’s students’ artistic gifts. Eddie’s open spirit permeates all activities at the College, including our legendary bops and the new Spitfire stand-up comedy nights, both of which are attended by members of all colleges.

With all this athletic and artistic fanfare, you’d be surprised to know we also do some work (occasionally…). The fourth edition of the St Edmund’s student conference was attended by more than 100 people with more than 20 presenters.

The popularity of this conference among students and fellows alike led to the creation of a series of biweekly seminars, where current students can present their research to a diverse audience and get

feedback on their work and presentation skills.

One of the major events of this year was the observance of the LGBT+ History Month, when for the first time the rainbow flag was flown at the College after an overwhelmingly supported motion passed by the students.

Eddie’s has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, making it a home away from home for everyone who comes here. You meet friends for life, who shape you and your experience at Cambridge. They are inspired by you and will be with you wherever you go. To the class of 2018, know that you are always welcome back to the college for a formal or just a chilled-out weeknight drinks at the bar.

See you at the May Ball!

Tomé Magalhães Gouveia

JET Photographic

R.N.Jabary M.M.Alhaddad C.W.Chua B.M.F.Mahon N.G.De Puy Kamp J.C.M.Shilton L.W.Y.Roode T.M.Barrett B.V.Popova V.J.M.Deconinck L.J.Duckworth M.Kelsey A.Vilar S.M.Abidi E.P.Baxter-Derrington B.N.Malewich J.L.Greenfield K.Volkmann O.Friedlander A.Caciagli D.K.Anand A.E.Wijaya S.P.De Souza M.McCaffery F.Rahman M.El Monayer A.R.Parsons M.Zachry Y.J.Lu T.Singh G.Karpauskaite A.Muller F.J.Renaud N.Giagkou G.Gunnarsson O.J.Smith A.H.Zaidi T.Bourton G.Michet de Varine T.Miyadera F.Ettmayer S.G.Popescu J.C.Wong N.H.Lackenby S.B.Goh W.R.P.Hammersley N.J.Abernethy Z.W.Ng P.Schachter K.W.Ng I.K.Dhothar D.Gilbert K.Bhardwaj E.Navarro T.Zou J.Duffy J.Mulvey D.Fahy T.Manzon W.Soo C.Gong D.Evans M.K.Ong H.Feng G.Dompeling J.Devine S.Liu C.Perez Irarrazaval J.Gottlieb S.Cooley B.Ting A.Ounkomol R.Mitchell A.Knight-Williams M.Scadden N.Manela A.Atay S.H.Gao J.Y.Loke Y.Huang A.Fong T.Lee O.T.Clough J.M.Thornton P.Riley B.Muhammad M.Hafner D.J.Gibbons T.Ebert A.Wildner F.Correa D.Rochow D.T.W.Chong M.Sykopetritou A.X.Cao G.Kapur B.N.Aponso R.W.Lee D.Giongco Y.Oh T.L.Ngai J.Yeo R.Choudhuri J.Papandreou S.E.Ricketts H.M.Clarke J.Charles K.Tsakalis V.Kampanas R.Farah A.Pinayeva T.Freestone-Bayes T.Cornelius T.Versluys R.G.G.De Oliveira J.O.Boehle D.M.Kornum C.McGlynn S.Biggins A.Ellaby S.Alsaeede P.Wang B.C.Li Y.Lin Y.Zhu I.Ambroz K.T.D.Lin M.R.Selman C.J.Williams C.B.R.Souza J.Ivinson B.B.Kjaer D.Stock M.J.Psycharis J.D.J.Fernon S.D.Fornecker A.H.J.Broza F.X.Lin E.Travieso S.Sultan K.Khir C.Huang A.Abdullah E.Woodgate-Jones D.P.Manda Y.Choi Prof. C.Williams Dr A.Colli K.Y.S.Ho M.L.H.Riemann J.M.Schaffer F.Yang I.Burkov S.M.Aljaberi O.Leicht R.Diegmiller C.M.Theil M.J.Horton A.Pabrinkis M.Orabona S.Russell T.Schüler Z.Pereira S.K.S.Leik Dr D.Jongkind Dr P.O’Donnell Prof.S.Lee Dr P.Dunstan Dr R.Oosterhoff Dr M.Gemelos Dr S.Haines Dr T.D’Angelo Dr J.Li Dr M.Cole Dr L.Wartosch Fr A.McCoy Prof. M.Herrtage Mr M.Bullock Dr R.Anthony Dr J.Bunbury Dr C.Fuhr Dr N.Morrison Dr P.McCosker Dr F.Constantino-Casas Revd Dr G.Cook Revd Dr R.Holder Dr G.Gordon Prof. J.Loughlin Dr A.Gannon

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t doesn’t seem so long since, as bright-eyed freshers, we arrived and settled in to the College that would quickly become home. Through nervous chatter we learned the use for four different glasses over dinner, the joys of knowing exactly where to find the rest of John’s in the same spot every week in Life, and the embarrassment of walking to the plodge wrapped in a towel, for a lock out key. Returning as wiser secondyears, we took to parenthood well, sharing tips on how to get more potatoes in Hall, perfectly timing the Buttery Brunch queue, and the perils of appearing on Cripps TV. As third year dawned, excited returners were distraught to find our beloved ‘wedding cake’ New Court wrapped up in scaffolding as well as the invasion of John’s Bar in Cindies by grime-loving freshers.

The first snow finally fell on John’s in our time here before the arrival of sunshine, conveniently as the exam term stress levels started to rise.

Summer days always brought basking in the sunshine on the Backs to the dulcet tones of increasingly bizarre punters’ tales of Johns. All those who claimed they’d rather be at Oxford miraculously became our friends again in the hunt for an elusive May Ball ticket. Whether singing your heart out to Taylor Swift, The Gents’ emergence from the Chapel (or is it the Maypole?) for that 5am rendition of Hey Jude, or the spectacular fireworks, we’ve been lucky to have such memorable nights to almost make those weeks cooped up in the library worthwhile.

One of the greatest life skills we have learnt here is surely how to improvise any costume on a budget, given the impressive commitment to fancy dress for Ents and their cheesy music and curious cocktails just a short stumbling distance from bed.

On the sporting front, Johnians have gone from strength to strength with Blues

earned in Boxing, Athletics, Hockey and more, and the rest of College surely worthy of Blues in supporting. The Redboys have triumphed in Cuppers, as well as somehow convincing people to come to every single one of their matches. The Blackboys played ‘the most important match of the season’ every week but eventually reached their goal of being promoted to the first division.

The Netball Girls have been undoubtedly one of the strongest teams College has ever seen with an impressive silverware collection to show for it. Numerous people have gravitated to the hockey pitch, seeking sparkly skills and the exceptional collections of fancy dress outfits in the Nags, or the beige lifestyle of the Nogs.

LMBC has truly ensured that the river runs red, boasting Head of the River in both May and Lents and sheer strength in numbers.

The swarms of garish red stash seen every weekend in the buttery is surely testament to the tremendous commitment shown on field and water. No matter the sport, under the watchful eye of Mark Wells, and fuelled

by Keith’s BBQ, we were driven to success.

Whilst we may not miss the hordes of tourists taking selfies on the Bridge of Sighs or the astounding frequency of Goats Cheese Slider in a Granary Bap in the Buttery, there is no question about where we would rather have been. A wise master once said, ‘This is not the beginning of the end, this is the end of the beginning’; after all, Once a Johnian, Always a Johnian.

Good luck!

Skye Fletcher

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Selwyn College

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hree things that have defined my time at Selwyn: Beautiful gardens, wonderful friends, and an opposition to ‘mushroom crumble’ that rivalled the recent strikes in its fervour. Arriving fresh off the boat (quite literally) from Northern Ireland, I wasn’t sure what Cambridge students, let alone Selwyn students, would be like.

Three years later, I’m not sure I’ve ever found the answer – or if there is an answer, it is that a ‘typical Selwyn student’ doesn’t exist. I’ve met Natscis that would rather light up the ADC stage than a Bunsen burner, Mathmos who love to socialise, and even an ASNaC Cheerleader.

I’ve tried to make a list of all the amazing and memorable moments during our time at Selwyn. It’s sitting beside me right now – now well onto the fourth side of A4. I could try to capture every single moment that made our time at Selwyn memorable – but it would be fruitless to even attempt to do so. Dancing to the highlights of ABBA Gold until 5am at the May Ball, surrounded by some of my very best friends in the world, might just be the high point of my life thus far. One of my friends burst into tears at the end of Chiquitita. It was, as the kids say, totes emosh. Tuesday Cindies is sure to miss our regular contingent – hopefully we have instilled in our successors the values that we have been taught (ie ‘The value of 4 VKs = £10’).

2015 to 2018 has been a turbulent time.

We survived Brexit, Trump, and the removal of the ice cream freezer from hall (SAD!). The JCR redecoration continues, operating on a geological timescale. Just as the planet has entered the Anthropocene epoch, the JCR has entered the ‘one-wallis-now-red-and-there-are-some-vendingmachines-cene’ epoch – although Lee Robertson and Ellen McPherson inform me they have ‘set a date’ to put some picture frames up (that date being February 2016).

I really believe that Selwyn represents the best of what Cambridge has to offer.

Forget academics (sorry, Senior Tutor…).

The people that I have met here have influenced and inspired me in innumerable ways. It’s a cliché to call Selwyn a ‘friendly’ college – and I agree, I think it is much deeper than that. Selwyn – for me, at least – was all about respect. Respect for your peers, for people of different opinions, backgrounds, and interests than your own.

At a time when universities are considered ideological echo chambers by the media, I’m proud that Selwyn fosters a culture of diversity, inclusion, and debate. Even if a lot of that debate is after several glasses of Alandra in the Master’s Lodge.

On behalf of everyone in matriculation year 2015, I’d like to thank Roger, Yoyo, the porters, the fellows, the kitchen and housekeeping staff, maintenance, gardens – everyone who has worked so hard to make our time here so special.

When we look back in the future, when Circuit Laundry has overtaken Apple as the richest company on earth, and the JCR has transitioned from ‘Moroccan Velvet’ to another slightly different shade of maroon, I hope that all of us will be able to remember fondly our time at Selwyn. And that the JCR cannot be booked out by any society, as per the constitution.

Thank you all.

Ted Mackey

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Sidney Sussex College

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ur time at Sidney is best summed up by our Third and Fourth Year Dinner, which took place in Lent. Given the theme ‘Heroes and Villains’, it was surprising that we did not have a single superhero present. Instead, we chose to use a bit of poetic license with our costumes. Visual interpretations of the highs and lows of our time of Sidney filled the room. From Circuit Laundry, to the Party Wizard, to Squash and Biscuits (featuring Alan, the librarian, not once but twice), nostalgia began to creep in dangerously. For some, the sight of nine VKs was one that brought fond memories, for others, it was a reminder of why they will never enter a Cambridge club again.

And looking over us as she has for the past three or four years, was Lady Sidney.

We began our freshers’ ‘four-days’ with the Parents’ Garden Party, where we stood nervously, unwilling to try strike up a conversation with any other fresher in fear that they would in fact be a sibling, or worse, a second-year. Through the week we navigated our way through the maze of talks hosted by College, selectively taking in advice we thought necessary.

Unfortunately, for some, the fire safety talk did not quite stick. Ice was broken as we sang to Mr Brightside at the Silent Disco and shared in the sweaty experience that was our first bop.

In our three or four years since that fateful week, we have achieved much to be proud of. To begin, we did Cambridge, and all that degree-related-stuff that came alongside it. But we also had our first set of M1 Blades in many years, put on our first opera and set up a number of new initiatives including Collective, our first dedicated Arts Society. Individually, we have also set a precedent in wider Cambridge. We have top journalists, sporting stars and incredible performers

amongst us.

Sidney has hosted a number of momentous events during our time here.

Sidney celebrated 40 Years of Women, and we got to see Carol Vorderman in person.

We had our final May Ball for a number of years, and our first ever June Event.

And never forget, Sidney Sussex Nugget Society hosted its inaugural event, where we successfully consumed 1596 nuggets in Sidney House.

Yet as we look back upon our three or four years, I have no doubt that smaller moments will stand out. The many lunches of Easter Term spent lounging out in Cloister Court, hiding from the reality that is exams, and running from the library at 5:39pm on a Thursday to ensure you are first in line for lasagne. It is unsurprising so many of our memories are food-based: we are from Sidney Sainsbury’s after all.

Our first Freshers’ Week now seems like a blur, and graduation is feeling increasingly real. Each and every one of us has done Cambridge in our own way, and we can be very proud of ourselves and one another. Take a moment during Graduation to look at the people surrounding you. So much of what has made Sidney special is its comradeship and this extends beyond the students. From our porters, to bedders, to academic staff, Sidney is a true community, and I hope it is one you remember as you move on to new adventures.

He aka te mea nui o tea o. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.

—Maori proverb Fran Jenkins

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Leo Laurence. Hannah Ly. Imogen Hubner. Elizabeth Rhodes. Vanya Kumar. Xiangjun Wei. Ana Sofia Ugarte Pfingsthorn. Helena Rannikmae Chloé-Nawel Cacheux. Justin Brooks. Kathryn Leach. Lucy Henderson. Isobel Smith. Jessica Dobson. Sophie Dickinson. Hannah Mackey. Alice Lee. Mercedes Baxter Chinery. Shirley Ngan. Laura Head. Leyly Moridi. Rhian Armstrong. Matthew Pyman. Yuetong Chen. Marta Chlubek. Christina Alishaw Zhiyuan Zhang. Constance Wou. Jaewon Shin. Kevin Ly. Suguru Kimura. Jan Wimalasena. Timothy Van der Lee. Marcelo Valença De Barros Vieira Ramos.

Christopher Quach. Carla Groenland. Patrick Lucescu. Max Gibson. Jay Parekh. Rex Li. Boning Ding. Maggie Chlon. Tahmida Huq. Laura Neilson. Alice Taylor Benjamin Porteous. Leo Penrose. Caroline Coombs. Saite Lu. Tien-Chun Wu. Ka Hing Justin Lo. Jieyi Kang. Miran Gilmore. Jenna Robinson. Anastasia Zoob.

Emma Bryan. Sanjeeta Abram. Houri Christina Tarazi. Alfie Denness. Anish Kejriwal. Georgemma Hunt. Ayesha Nicholls. Fenella James Hannah Munby. Marina Scott. Octavia Akoulitchev. Cyril Ringenbach. Rudin Petrossian-Byrne. Gunnar Herzig. Sizhe Sun. Pavan Marwaha. Joseph Moore. James Campsie.

George Shorthouse. Jiabing Yan. Oliver White. Eloise Lake. Thomas Richardson. Tenage McDowell. Sharna-Louise Willis. Dario Pagnano. Anoop Rao Daniel Owens. Andres Sanjur. Sebastian Casas. Simon Larmour. Michael Craig. Shrey Trivedi. Tomas Marino. Joshua Pike. Timothy Havard. Edward Ti. Reece Griffiths. Noah Froud. Reuben Chacko. Amin Abdelhamid. Isla Stevens. Franz Joseph Hinzen. Charles-Edward Sealy. Xiaotian Xu James Barth. Piers Anthony Henriques. Charles Pardoe. Katherine Roberts. Melanie Jans-Singh. Jamie Blaiklock. Ellen Martin. Elena Helgiu. David Ryan. David Lewis.

Nikolas Oktaba. Daisy Cragg. Bethany Goulson. Louis Norris. Charles Pell. Fionn Connolly. Laurence Carden. Johannes Krausser. Simone Goldstein Philip Saville. James Gillespie. Raffael Fasel. Nils Masters. Zachary Lande. Jonathan Ben-Shaul. Hamish Scott. Mohammad Shahrour. Simeon Wentzel.

Jacob Allen. Alia Khalid. Andrew Turner. George Mather. Francesca Jenkins. Oliver Turvey. Benjamin Morris. Tirenioluwa Ajilore. Mohit Dhiman Fola Afolabi. Amarisa Sirilerkpipat. Cassiano Ricardo Gomes Peres. Sergio Barraza-Ingstrom. Timothy Schmalz. Aleksander Napieraj. Jay Ojha. Jozef Maruscak. Philip Blayney.

Chiedozie Ibekwe. Ludwig Bull. Radu Thomas. Gerard Lyons. Kit Stout. Maarten Jan Kamphuis. Christopher Gaunt. Alexey Ivanov. Thomas Martin. Daniel Barcia Luca Donini. Sanjana Sanghavi. Anthony Chow. Maryam Mushtaq. David Barley. Simran Singh. Sirikorn Puangjit. Mr M Beber. Prof R Penty. Mr C Maxted.

Dr D Skinner. Jenifer Varzaly. Gabrielle Elliott-Williams. Ruth McGuinness. Alyssa P’ng. Edward Hollingsworth. Akshyeta Suryanaraya. Remi-Felix Reichhold

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Trinity College

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t is often said, in a rather philosophical tone, that you cannot step into the same river twice; although, if you are lucky, you might return to the place where that river once existed. For those of us graduating this year, this is most probably not the end of our experience of the College, but it does signal the passing of a certain phase. While many of us may return either as graduate students or as visitors in Michaelmas, we will never again pass through the Great Gate as undergraduates. What better time, then, to look back and reflect upon the last few years, from the time we first passed within Trinity’s vast courts and halls to matriculate, than as we consider how we shall leave them as graduates.

From first meetings and first supervisions and getting to grips with lectures, labs, practicals, seminars, and Cindies, we have all learned to find our own way of navigating the pressured timetable of Cambridge life. We all remember both late nights working in rooms and libraries, as well as evenings that turned into mornings after returning (only slightly) worse for wear from a formal or an outing in one of Cambridge’s nightclubs. The cloisters of Nevile’s Court, the Gothic fantasy of Whewells Court, and the grandeur of Trinity’s famous Great Court are places in which kings, presidents, and prime ministers have walked; they are where Newton experimented with the physics of sound, and where the philosopher Wittgenstein, the poet Byron, and the writer Vladimir Nabokov first learned their trades. These are also places which we have had the honour of calling our home for these last few years.

With moments of academic trial there have also been times of spectacle, excitement, and personal discovery. Within the College walls, we have found great friends, discovered new interests and

hobbies, experienced wonderful formal dinners, and even tried our hands at punting (where only a few unfortunates fell into the River Cam). Amongst all of this, the College Bar has experienced a spectacular renaissance, becoming a central location for life in College and which, at least to some of us, has a greater claim to be called the heart of their Trinity experience than either the library or Old Field. For many of us, however, the happiest of times we will recall are the euphoric moments spent with friends after finishing exams and the charmed existence between the end of the academic year and the splendour of the Trinity May Ball. These are all things which we consider ourselves truly fortunate to have experienced during our time here.

For now we go our separate ways: some to pursue further studies, others to take up professional careers, and still more to explore the world beyond this small, if rather special, fenland town. This is not the end of our association with Trinity College, but as we pass from being students to alumni we can rightly consider all that we shall remember of our time here. So, while we may not step into the same Great Court twice, we will all re-visit our memories, some bitter and some sweet, of our lives at the College for many years to come.

As Trinity’s great poet Lord Tennyson remarked, ‘I am a part of all that I have met’. We will all take a part of the College, and those whom we have encountered here, with us wherever we go.

Jack Dickens & Jessica Young

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hat is Trinity Hall? To an outsider, perhaps, we are little more than an unimposing entryway and the most aesthetically pleasing library in Cambridge (Fit Hall, am I right?). But those who are lucky enough to make it through the Porter’s Lodge free from shouts of ‘Hey, do you go to this College?!’ know that it is so much more.

Though some may have been disturbed after first year to discover that Central Site was not a forever home, and that they would have to face the fabled land Up the Hill, friendships and the community built in those first three terms only grew stronger in adversity. This was not hindered by the introduction of what a former JCR President referred to as the ‘comically majestic WYNG Gardens’.

The call of Tit Wall, the Aula, and the hallowed Pool Table rings out to even the most distant of Tit-Hallers. For others, the Jerwood has particular charms (what these may be, the rest continue to wonder).

Others are drawn back to Central by our illustrious collection of societies. While we probably will not be winning any medals for general participation, the last few years have seen an improvement on a solidly mediocre performance from said societies, the crowning jewel being the reestablishment of the Preston Society.

The Boat Club’s performance has steadily been catching up with both their team spirit and their alcohol consumption. The women’s football team has put in a strong performance over the last few years under Malcolm’s watchful eye and are currently restoring some order to Tit Hall’s sporting reputation in the top division. The men’s team went unbeaten in the top division.

They attribute this to their strategy of playing in third. Meanwhile, our glorious choir continues to go from strength to

strength; formal to formal.

In the years to come you might look back and find that you miss the myriad Superhall themes spicing up Formal Hall, or our unique Vivas (the personification of edginess), particularly since they have been rebranded by Chris and Isaac, and perhaps you might even miss the incessant posting on the JCR page. Where would we be without the constant pleas for help in finding *insert object here*? Though in all honesty, most of us are probably guilty of this one.

Everyone’s experience of life here will undoubtedly have been different. While for some, the Saturday lecture was a sad reality, for others going to lectures at all was an alien concept. Subject differences aside, the years we spend here make us part of a community that persists long after graduation. The support of the fellows, and tireless work of the porters, bedmakers, gardeners, kitchen staff, and so many others bring life to the old flagstones.

We may only be here for a short space of time but, ultimately, ‘we are [all] TH Pool’; we are all Tit Hall.

Rebecca Horner

Lafayette Photography

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The Colleges

Wolfson College

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‘T

he thing about Wolfson, is that everyone is at a different stage of a midlife crisis’. So were the words of comedian Nish Kumar at first Wolfson Howler we attended as freshers in October 2015. His words have struck the keynote for our time at Wolfson.

Partly because they can ‘ring true’ (also our College motto): spa day’s avocado facemask application in the clubroom clashing with a graduation circa 2016 is a personal highlight. However, Kumar’s observation is pertinent because during our time here it has been so striking how often the maturity, experience and diversity of our student body leads to engaging critical discussion. Our internationalism has felt particularly important during the worldchanging political events of the last three years.

It is easy to discuss the notable heroes to come out of Wolfson whilst we’ve been studying. Current student Ibz Mohammed has, impressively, placed Wolfson in the public eye, creating a highly successful YouTube channel that promotes applications from diverse candidates to the University. In 2016–17 we produced a University Challenge team that made it to the final: Eric Monkman, for his quiz mania and his diverse facial expressions becoming an online sensation. Within the University, our very own Louis Ashworth (English Lit 2018 graduate) has been a key figure in developing newspaper Varsity into a Guardian-esque publication for the community.

However, we should not forget the College’s unsung heroes. Special mentions go to Larry the porter who will actually ask you to put your feet on a table so he can ask you to take them off again… and Dawn and Trudy who are some of the most entertaining, and dedicated, members of the cleaning staff. Key events

in the last three years include the cohort matriculation photo. Hiding the abject fear on all of our faces so did we smile whilst balancing on a set of stainless steel tiered staging. This day was our first foray into the ceremony of Cambridge tradition and we hoped it wouldn’t be our last. Having made it through balancing in court shoes on a silver tight rope, I will always recall the surprise of so many when we made it through to the Halloween formal at the end of the month. Some say a student from R Block dressed as Edvard Munch’s The Scream to express her shocked emotion.

Others say this was just a misappropriation of the same academic gowns we had worn proudly earlier in the month.

In late 2017 and early 2018 we waved sadly goodbye to outgoing president, historian Sir Richard Evans and wife Christine Corton, but welcome the settling of our first female president: Jane Clarke.

Her warmth and open approach is already felt on site: with generous touches such as offering her large private study to other College staff when she is not using it.

As our accomplishments testify, whilst Wolfson’s geographical location may be considered Alaskan by more ill-informed members of the University’s centrally placed community, when a wolf howls they howl with quality, volume and perspective. I can’t wait to be inspired by this community for the rest of my life. I only hope I, and each of us graduating, can contribute to its legacy with progressive steps, however small or large, for the international community. Here we have been afforded the tools to make this happen.

If Wolfson is what a range of midlife difficulty looks like then it is likely the rest of the outside world that is really having the crisis. This has been, and will always be, our family.

Olivia Gillman

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C.Smyth E.Trichia Z.Shen A.Luna Navarro U.Rutkowska J.Gardner J.Ordish L.Stowell T.Kearns D.McMitchell R.Kesavan N.Nesi J.Kerrison J.Downs B.Zabel J.C.Yang H.J.Goodale O.M.Gillman C.E.Eker S.Devine K.Hammad D.González Sánchez R.Vazquez Ortega P.Sajjad R.A.Azmi S.M.Korzen S.J.Lee K.Lee M.Dickinson A.Massrali P.Huang D.Wang S.Hladkou A.Nasanovich R.Milkus A.Busch F.E.Iddon E.Potter K.K.Sheikh Ali J.E.Griggs C.Michalakakis S.Chen K.Siksnius A.Mourachko W.Z.Tan J.Deloch L.Orietti C.J.Foster W.Zhou P.Cosgrove D.H.Qian Y.Liu C.Robertson M.C.Karkantzou Y.Wang J.Chamberlain S.Evans J.Sutton Z.Y.A.Mok P.C.Hoffmann K.Deng D.Mubaiwa I.S.Lawal G.Choo S.C.Hendra T.Koller J.Stewart M.Jones M.Penfold U.Javed M.Germain S.Sarferaz P.Boonyarungsrit N.José J.Ee K.Schinnenburgova A.Ramabadran K.Wright A.Piskunov C.Broumley Young S.A.Gould A.Bulat J.D.Cattien C.Clifford Astbury H.Hockin-Boyers Q.V.Dang A.Schlosberg T.Taylor Y.Liu P.Naik O.Khalid V.V.Thampy J.Chiang E.D.Monkman S.Zhu D.Aggarwal D.Momjian H.Topp Y.Liu F.Sheikh A.Hadjimitsis A.Jha H.L.Tan S.R.Li H.Liu T.Gu P.W.Mutonga Y.J.Xiao M.Tsutsumi Z.Liu X.Deng H.Kamel I.K.Samuelson D.Fung J.J.Recalde Lara A.F.Escobar K.Worrasangasilpa Z.Guo J.S.C.Harris G.L.Valette R.Penford S.M.Elias Sardiña P.Beriwal F.Olcott L.Abbott D.Cowan H.M.Yakubu D.B.Rainbow P.H.Bergh A.Dabrowski J.X.Koh Y.Wang J.Z.Wang S.Feng E.Xing J.Wong Yu Quan A.Chan R.Miao M.Liang S.Coppin J.K.Mugerwa J.Solly D.Lachin M.Manukyan H.Wu M.De Freitas Santos B.Qubaty L.Ashworth I.Safdag S.Wolf P.M.Salmony G.M.Vernaz R.M.Crowther T.Hilton A.Szekely N.J.Fraser T.J.Laméris A.J.Watts R.V.Pravindra Y.J.Tan M.Y.Wong H.X.Teo J.E.Sim C.H.Chan A.Timoneda Monfort W.W.Brown R.Hughes M.Liu O.Walker P.W.Bahta H.Lee A.Kouli T.Y.Zhang T.Baer C.Peng S.D.Bechtel L.Withey E.Vandenbergh D.Niedenzu A.Hetterley H.Harper M.Smith E.Hall D.Antoniades Y.Afif S.K.Leung J.M.Daw W.M.Lim M.Wassell A.W.M.Britton S.Ge K.K.J.Chan D.Zhang J.Y.J.Too M.Garcia Ortegon K.A.B.Sutija K.Georgaki T.C.Freeman O.V.Ratnieks J.P.Antoun E.Bates J.Seidlitz T.Mahapatra D.L.Barbiers A.K.Lawson C.M.Naso B.Abou El Ela Bourquin A.D.H.Lockhart M.Southwood D.J.Schneider B.A.Blob J.M.Geary P.Dufrasne P.Reeves S.Poya Faryabi A.Soghoyan M.L.McCarey L.G.Smith M.G.Doria L.Ma M.Ni T.Nguyen P.C.Luk M.Y.Cheuk M.Gold K.L.Petch S.K.Lewis S.J.Molyneux K.Wacker L.Koh J.N.Chen H.Wang M.Fernández Jarrin A.C.Dall’Agnol J.A.Robinson L.Moreno I.Dardani A.J.Montag A.K.Hoermann T.Muradyan O.D.P.Vandeputte R.E.Reti P.H.Iyer S.H.Tjoa J.Xu K.Kennedy T.N.Zivkovic M.Westbury A.Bagnoli M.D.Vestergaard K.M.Greenbank J.Dekkers G.S.H.Yeo A.Fuller C.S.M.Lawrence J.D.McLarty R.J.Evans K.A.Stephenson B.D.Cox D.Frost S.K.Church A.J.Trinidad S.Taha M.Wignall D.J.White B.Chen K.Cornish N.M.G.Dieckmann H.Hawizy M.G.Friedman

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Honorary Graduates

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz Doctor of Law Immunologist, physician, academic leader and the Chair of Cancer Research UK, Leszek Borysiewicz was born in Wales to parents who had escaped wartime Poland. After studying medicine in Cardiff and obtaining a PhD at the University of London, he first came to Cambridge and Wolfson College (of which he is both a Fellow and an Honorary Fellow) as a University Lecturer in 1988. Subsequently Professor of Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Principal of the Faculty of Medicine (and latterly Deputy Rector) at Imperial College, London and Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, he was Cambridge’s fourth full-time Vice-Chancellor 2010–17.

A Fellow of the Royal Society and a founding Fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales, he is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. Awards have included the Inserm International Medal, Harverian Oratorship and the Galen, Jephcot and Moxon Trust Medals. A Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund’s and Homerton Colleges, Leszek Borysiewicz was knighted in 2001 for work in developing medical education and vaccines.

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Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft Doctor of Medical Science Robert Taylor

The University’s higher doctorates in Divinity (DD), Law (LLD), Medical Science (MedScD), Science (ScD), Letters (LittD) and Music (MusD) are conferred either after submission and assessment of major academic work, or, if they are conferred as titular degrees honoris causa, as the highest honour the University can bestow. In the latter case the recipients are individuals of outstanding national or international achievement in their field. Occasionally the Master of Arts degree (MA) is also conferred honoris causa, on those who have made an outstanding and direct contribution to the University, County or City of Cambridge.

Frances Ashcroft is currently Professor of Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford. An alumna and now Honorary Fellow of Girton College, she holds PhD and ScD degrees at Cambridge and has given both Linacre and Darwin Lectures. After postdoctoral work at Leicester and UCLA, she moved to Oxford, where in 1984 she discovered that the ATP-sensitive potassium channel is crucial for insulin secretion from the beta-cells of the pancreas. She now leads a team that is world renowned in the area of pancreatic beta cell and ATP-sensitive channel physiology. Her collaborations with Professor Andrew Hattersley on channel mutations causing neonatal diabetes have revolutionised the understanding and treatment of this disease. A Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, she has won many awards including the Albert Renold Prize of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.

Prominent in public engagement with science, she won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Frances Ashcroft was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2015.

Honorary Graduates

Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science Halbauer and Fioretti

Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier The French biochemist, microbiologist and geneticist Emmanuelle Charpentier was educated in Paris at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and the Institut Pasteur, where she completed her doctorate. Director of the Department of Regulation in Infection Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin and an Honorary Professor at Humboldt University, her early career was made in the United States. Returning to Europe and to Vienna in 2002, she later moved to Sweden and Umeå University, before moving to Germany to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School. A world leader in the understanding of regulatory mechanisms underlying infection and immunity, the work of Emmanuelle Charpentier and her team on the bacterial CRISPRCas9 immune system and its development into a genome editing tool together with Jennifer Doudna is acclaimed as one of the outstanding advances of our time in biology and medicine.

Winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Leibniz Prize and the Carus Medal, a Canada Gairdner Award and the Japan Prize (both with Jennifer Doudna) and a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (with Doudna and Francisco M. Mojica), in 2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier was appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.

The structural biologist Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan is a Group Leader in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, a Fellow of Trinity College and Honorary Professor of Structural Biology.

Holding British and United States citizenship but born in India, he was an undergraduate at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Ohio. He continued with graduate study in biology at the University of California, San Diego, before a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale. Now working on ribosomes, he was at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, and the University of Utah before moving to Cambridge and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he had already been a sabbatical visitor, in 1999. Ten years later came the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Ada Yonath and Thomas A Steitz), for the study of ribosomal structure and function. Other awards have included the LouisJeantet Prize, the Datta Lectureship and Medal, a Krebs Medal and the Heatley Medal. Currently President of the Royal Society and a member of the American National Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy, Venki Ramakrishnan received the Padma Vibhushan in 2010 and a knighthood in 2012.

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Honorary Graduates

Professor Sir Michael Edwards

Professor Robert Evans

Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters A dual English and French national, the poet and literary scholar Michael Edwards was both an undergraduate and a PhD student at Christ’s College, of which he is now an Honorary Fellow. He completed his doctoral work in Paris, where he is now Professor of the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language Emeritus at the Collège de France.

His academic career began with a lectureship in French at the University of Warwick, saw him move to the University of Essex as a Reader in Literature, and later return to Warwick as Professor of English and eventually Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. With interests in theology and philosophy as well as literary creation, he has published extensively; on Homer, Ovid and Dante, on Shakespeare, Poe and Eliot, and also Molière, Racine and Baudelaire. His poetry spans both languages and, elected one of the 40 members of the Académie française, he is the first Briton to sit amongst les Immortels. An Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Michael Edwards was accorded his British knighthood in 2014.

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The historian Robert Evans is Regius Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Although an undergraduate and a PhD student in Cambridge, at Jesus College, of which he is now an Honorary Fellow, he has made his career in Oxford, where he progressed from a lectureship to hold first a Chair in European History and latterly the Regius Chair in Modern History, now History.

Acclaimed for his work on Central and Eastern Europe and especially the Habsburg Empire, he has been particularly concerned with the role played by language. He has also written on the history of Wales; he is a past President of the Welsh Language Society at Oxford and a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. Holder of the František Palacký Medal and the Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst, he has also received a Wolfson Literary Award for History and an Anton Gindely Prize. In addition to a Fellowship of the British Academy and founding Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales, Robert Evans is a Fellow of both the Austrian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences and of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.

Honorary Graduates

Miss Joyce Reynolds

Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters The American political scientist and historian Ira Katznelson has been serving as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 2017–18. He is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, where he was an undergraduate before coming to Cambridge and St John’s College. Earning his PhD in 1969, he returned to Columbia for his first academic post. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, where he was Dean of the Graduate Faculty, and again at Columbia since 1994. Acclaimed for analytical and historical work on matters of race, pluralism, toleration, policy decisions, and social knowledge within the liberal political tradition, his scholarship has encompassed political and social history, comparative political studies and the history of ideas. His books have been awarded various recognitions including the Bancroft Prize in History and the Woodrow Wilson Award in Political Science. Professor Katznelson has been President of the American Political Science Association and was President of America’s Social Science Research Council 2012–17. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.

Faculty of Classics

Professor Ira Katznelson

A classicist and epigrapher, Joyce Reynolds was an undergraduate at Oxford and a temporary civil servant in wartime before postgraduate work as a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, where she discovered epigraphy. Briefly a lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle upon Tyne, she has been a Fellow of Newnham College since 1951, directing studies in Classics for many years. Appointed to a University lectureship and ultimately a Readership in the Epigraphy of the Roman World, she is now Reader Emerita and an Honorary Fellow of Newnham.

Internationally renowned in the fields of ancient Roman history and archaeology, her major work has been on inscriptions from North Africa (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) and Turkey (Aphrodisias). Formerly President of both the Societies for Libyan Studies and for the Promotion of Roman Studies and an active scholar despite the approach of her hundredth birthday, she has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley. Joyce Reynolds is a Gold Medallist of the Society of Antiquaries and a longstanding Fellow of the British Academy, receiving its Kenyon Medal for her outstanding achievement in Classical Studies and Archaeology.

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